Ellis v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Ellie, Inc. v. Miccichi (2004), Lindsay v. Lindsay (1997)
2 federal appellate · 53 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 Anderson v. Hall
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When words of particular and specific meaning are followed by general words, the general words are construed to embrace only persons or things of the same general kind or class as those enumerated. See Swanigan v. American Nat’l Red Cross, 313 S.C. 416 , 438 S.E.2d 251 (1993). The forms of “assistance” enumerated in the agreement are all within the same general class of programs that do not require repayment. We find “other assistance” does not include loans that require repayment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lacke v. Lacke
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.