Eliott v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Barrett v. State (2003), Anderson v. State (2004)
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 White v. State · Price v. State · Ayers v. State · Lindsey v. State · Thrash v. State
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) Other Crimes, Wrongs, or Acts. Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not |Radmissible to prove the character of a person in order to show that he acted in conformity therewith. It may, however, be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Banks v. State · Jefferson v. State“Arkansas case law is replete with the proposition that the flight of a person charged with the commission of a crime has some evidentiary value on the question of his probable guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McDaniel v. State
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.