Ellis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 2014
9 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 Terry v. Ohio · Beck v. State of Ohio · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Rawlings v. Kentucky · Riddles 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must therefore be confined in scope to an intrusion reasonably designed to discover guns, knives, clubs, or other hidden instruments for the assault of the police officer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Graves v. State“When an object is soft or does not reasonably resemble a weapon, the Terry analysis does not justify removing it from the suspect's clothing and searching it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shaver v. State“The rationale underlying the Terry stop is the protection of the officer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Graves 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.