Ellis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2009
17 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 Olles v. State · Varnedare v. State · Gambill v. Stroud · Bank of Ozark v. Isaacs · Beckman v. Barrett
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Self-induced intoxication is an affirmative defense to a prosecution if it negates the existence of a purposeful or knowing mental state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Johns v. State“aggravated robbery is a specific-intent crime” and, in turn, the State must prove the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Heard v. State
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.