State v. Ellis’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
2
states following
March 2002
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · United States v. Cronic · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Illinois v. Allen
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a defendant's inexcusable absence from trial, under circumstances demonstrating knowledge of the time and place of trial, the right to be present, and that the trial may proceed if defendant is absent, constitutes a sufficient basis for a trial court's decision to proceed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to permit a rational factfinder to find a defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt on the charges on which the defendant was convicted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is a condition of due process to the extent that a fair and just hearing would be thwarted by [the defendant's] absence[.]”
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.