Ellis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 2013
2 federal appellate · 22 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2510 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2518 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Rakas v. Illinois · Alderman v. United States · Smith v. Maryland · United States v. New York Telephone Co.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] state law must meet the minimum standards of [federal law] in protecting privacy but may impose more stringent requirements. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“an instrument or apparatus used for overhearing, recording, intercepting, or transmitting sounds. . . which involves in its operation electricity, electronics, infrared, laser or similar beams. . . .”
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.