Ellison v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis
581 F.2d 584 · 1978
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2003
4 federal appellate ·
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 Imbler v. Pachtman · Principality of Monaco v. Mississippi · Lavine v. Shirley · Robinson v. Georgia
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether valid or not, is unquestionably 'an integral part of the judicial process' and may not be the basis of a civil rights action . . . .”
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.