Ellison v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Choi v. State (1989), Crosby v. State (2001)
51 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Gault · Hoffman v. United States · Truong Dinh Hung v. United States · United States v. Radio Television News Directors Ass'n · United Gas Improvement Co. v. Continental Oil 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“during the pendency of [a sentence appeal], the criminal judgment is not so finalized that the possibility of future proceedings on the charges is remote.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““To sustain the privilege, it need only be evident from the implications of the question, in the setting in which it is asked, that a responsive answer to the question or an explanation of why it cannot be answered might be dangerous because injurious disclosure could result.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Choi v. State“While a majority of appeals by defendants in criminal cases may not result in reversals and further proceedings, a criminal defendant's chance of overturning a verdict or sentence on appeal certainly does not fall into the category of a mere remote possibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Graham v. Durr
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.