Ellison v. Schuster’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 1995 · most notably Lane Title and Trust Company v. Brannan (1968), Carrillo v. Taylor (1956)
4 federal appellate · 27 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 McFadden v. McFadden · Tevis v. Ryan · Thomas v. Newcomb · Costello v. Cunningham · First Baptist Church v. Connor
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is also the rule on appeal that we will assume the trial court found every fact necessary to support its orders and judgment, and that every conflict in the testimony will be resolved in favor of such findings, actual or presumed." (Citing cases.)”
2 later decisions 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.