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← 2009 MT 192 - State v. Ellis

State v. Ellis’s Empirical Analysis

2009

Citation profile

27
cited by 27 later decisions
2
states following
August 2024
most recently cited

27 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Katz v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · United States v. Matlock · Nix v. Williams

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.

  1. “The right of individual privacy is essential to the well-being of a free society and shall not be infringed without the showing of a compelling state interest.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[W]arrantless searches conducted inside a home are per se unreasonable, subject only to a few specifically established and well-delineated exceptions.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “procedural safeguards such as a properly issued search warrant or other special circumstances.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.