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← 255 SO3D 568 - State v. Ellison

State v. Ellison’s Empirical Analysis

2018

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Dorsey v. United States · Dorsey v. United States · State v. Ladd · State of Louisiana v. Corei K. Guidry · State v. Hagans

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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “In view of the defendant's non-violent criminal record and the sentencing court's imposition of twenty years without the benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence under the Habitual Offender Law, this sentence on its face seems very harsh.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  2. “use of the Habitual Offender Law by prosecutors should be cautiously exercised with reasonable discretion.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent

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.