Ellis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2001
12 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 Allison v. State · Bruder v. State · Gallup v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. · Tignor v. State · Brown 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being, without malice express or implied, and without deliberation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brewer v. State
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.