State v. Ely’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably State v. Smith (1986), 12 Cal. 3d 190 - People v. Haydel (1974)
24 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“amount[ed] to the offering of an inducement and weaken[ed] the effect of any warning that the confession could be used against him”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jackson
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.