Ellis v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
249 F.2d 478 · 1957
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2000
14 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915
Relies on Johnson v. United States · Farley v. United States · Holland v. Capital Transit Co. · United States v. Sevilla
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Counsel ... concluded that the rulings of the District Court were not `so clearly erroneous as to constitute probable error.' ... Where, as here, there was a fairly arguable question, counsel should have proceeded to present argument”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[C]ounsel appointed by the court to represent indigent defendants who wish to appeal their convictions owe an obligation to the court as well as to their clients”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“there was not such merit even in this aspect of the appeal as to warrant further prosecution of the appeal,”
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.