Ellison v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 1982
15 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 Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Jones · Rudolph v. Alabama · Crain v. State · 163 Tex. Crim. 352 - Bingham v. State · 167 Tex. Crim. 601 - Kerrigan 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The three offenses [robbery, kidnapping and rape] were committed by a continuous assault and were so interwoven as to be part of the same transaction. The evidence sought to be excluded was admissible under the so called res gestae rule. Kerrigan v. State, 167 Tex.Cr.R. 601 , 321 S.W.2d 884 and cases cited.” See also Walker v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 454 S.W.2d 415 ; Jefferson v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 452 S.W.2d 462 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Nash v. State · Smallwood 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.