Ellis v. Dixon’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1977 · most notably Estelle v. Gamble (1976), Police Department of Chicago v. Mosley (1972)
15 federal appellate · 10 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 Alabama State Federation of Labor Local v. McAdory · Rescue Army v. Municipal Court of Los Angeles · Aircraft & Diesel Equipment Corp. v. Hirsch · Seth Carter v. State of Texas · Dalehite v. United States
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by-passed the federal right under forms of local procedure”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.