Ellison v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
February 2014
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Addington v. Texas · Kansas v. Hendricks · Dowling v. United States · United States v. One Assortment of 89 Firearms · Shivaee v. Com.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because of the stringent standard of proof the law imposes upon the prosecution, [finders of fact] must acquit unless they find each element of the crime charged to have been proved beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Crawford v. Com. · Bishop v. Com.
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.