208 So. 2d 49 - Ellis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 1994
10 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 Lofton v. State · 192 So. 2d 923 - Tate v. State · Brown v. State · Herrington v. State · Adams v. State
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Court instructs the Jury that if you believe from the evidence in this case, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the Defendant, Jimmy Dale Keys, armed himself with a deadly weapon and confronted James Cunningham with the formed felonious intention of invoking a difficulty with James Cunningham, or brought on or voluntarily entered into any difficulty with James Cunningham with the felonious intent to cause serious bodily harm to James Cunningham, then the Defendant, Jimmy Dale Keys, cannot invoke the law of self-defense no matter how imminent the peril in which Jimmy Dale Keys found himself.”
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.