Elliott v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 2005
18 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 Frankel v. Woodrough · Worthington v. United States · Shirley v. State · Ex Parte State Ex Rel. Attorney General · Phillips v. United States
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Even though no formal judgment of guilt appears on the minutes, there appears a sentence by the trial court in compliance with the verdict of guilt. It follows that an implied judgment of guilt results, which will support an appeal. * ifi % »”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * They [the jury] returned > a verdict of guilty of murder in'the second degree and fixed-.defendant’s punishment at imprisonment in. the penitentiary for a period of thirty years. . *■ *; “There was no formal- judgment of guilt or fixation of punishment entered-on the minutes of the court, but the - bench notes of the trial judge appear in the transcript before us. The verdict was returned in open court, in the presence of the defendant * * , The trial court, after first asking the defendant if he had anything to say why the. senr tence should not be pronounced, and receiving no answer, sentenced the defendant to a term of thirty years in the penitentiary * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.