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← 345 S.C. 175 - State v. Ellis

State v. Ellis’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

35
cited by 35 later decisions
2
states following
May 2025
most recently cited

35 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably State v. Jennings (2011), State v. Douglas (2009)

35 state decisions

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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 Hopt v. People · State v. Von Dohlen · State v. Gilchrist · State v. Wilkins · State v. Sullivan

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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Testimony in the form of an opinion or inference otherwise admissible is not objectionable because it embraces an ultimate issue to be decided by the trier of fact.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “limited to those opinions ... which ... do not require special knowledge, skill, experience or training”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “limited to those opinions ... rationally based on the perception of the witness.”
    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.