Ellis v. Price’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably Dodson v. Allstate Insurance (2001), Advocat, Inc. v. Sauer (2003)
5 federal appellate · 55 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 Bennett v. State · Williams v. State · Harold McLaughlin Reliable Truck Brokers, Inc. v. Cox · United Insurance Co. of America v. Murphy · Porter v. Harshfield
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When an award of damages is alleged on appeal to be excessive, we review the proof and all reasonable inferences most favorable to the appellee and determine whether the verdict is so great as to shock our conscience or demonstrate passion or prejudice on the part of the jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A plaintiff must establish actual damage to his reputation, but the showing of harm is slight. A plaintiff must prove that the defamatory statement(s) have been communicated to others and that the statements have detrimentally affected those relations.The law does not require proof of actual out-of-pocket expenses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“malicious or done with the deliberate intent to injure another,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.