State v. Ellefson’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably State v. Pattno (1998), State v. Joubert (1990)
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 Strickland v. Washington · State v. Bird Head · Fox v. Fox · State v. Painter · State v. Gillette
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A motion to disqualify a judge on the ground of bias or prejudice is addressed to the judge’s discretion, and an order overruling such a motion will ordinarily be affirmed on appeal unless the record establishes bias or prejudice as a matter of law. [State v. Reddick, 230 Neb. 218 , 430 N.W.2d 542 (1988).] A party seeking to disqualify a judge on the basis of bias or prejudice bears the heavy burden of overcoming the presumption of judicial impartiality. State v. Bird Head, 225 Neb. 822 , 408 N.W.2d 309 (1987).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Joubert“was to concentrate [through cross-examination of the State's expert] on the fact that the [scientific] test results did not pinpoint [Ellefson] as the perpetrator and that more than one-half of the general population could not be ruled out as being the victim's assailant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ellefson v. Hopkins“'[t]he record discloses that the decision not to call an expert witness was carefully made and based on trial strategy.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ellefson v. Hopkins
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.