Ellenburg v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably State v. Bobo (1987), Key v. State (1978)
27 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Smith v. People of the State of California · People v. Finkelstein · State v. Hudson County News Co. · First Nat. Bank of Memphis v. McCanless · Phillips & Buttorff Mfg. Co. v. Carson
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If any person print, publish, import, sell or distribute any book, pamphlet, ballad or any printed paper containing obscene language or obscene prints, pictures or descriptions, manifestly tending to corrupt the public morals; or introduce the same into any family, school or place of education; or have the same in his possession for the purpose of loan, sale, exhibition or circulation, with intent to introduce the same into any family, school or place of education, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Marshall
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.