Ellis v. Ellis’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2018
17 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.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the established principle that where the court has jurisdiction of both the subject-matter and the parties and acts within its power, the binding force and effect of a judgment is not impaired because the same has been erroneously allowed, though the error may be undoubted and apparent on the face of the record”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boseman v. Jarrell“[a]n erroneous judgment should be corrected by appeal or certiorari,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boseman v. Jarrell“may be impeached collaterally or by direct attack.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.