Ellis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently February 1994 · most notably 38 Ala. App. 64 - Wright v. State (1954), 32 Ala. App. 408 - Kelley v. State (1946)
83 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 McMillan v. Aiken · Anderson v. State · Wilson v. State · Cross v. State · American Ry. Express Co. v. Reid
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Antecedent circumstances tending to . . . show preparation to commit the crime are always admissible in evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““The application of the rule of res gestae depends on whether the circumstances are such that it may be affirmed as reasonably certain that ‘(1) the declarations were produced by, or were instinctive of the occurrences to which such exclamations, declarations or outcry relate, or which give character or characterize the act or principal fact for decision’, rather than a retrospective narrative of such occurrences; (2) the declarations must be contemporaneous with the main facts and so closely connected with it as to illustrate its character.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The discrediting of a witness by showing his conviction of a crime, does not authorize the reception of evidence indicating his innocence of the charge, or showing the particulars of the offense (Waters v. State , 117 Ala. 108 , 22 So. 490 ; Fuller v. State , 147 Ala. 35 , 41 So. 774 ; Kendrick v. Cunningham , 9 Ala. App. 398 , 63 So. 797 ), or showing that the witness never paid the fine or performed the hard labor sentence imposed upon him. Formby v. Williams , 17 Ala. App. 24 , 81 So. 360 .”
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.