Ellis v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
596 F.2d 1195 · 1979
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently December 2006 · most notably Graham v. State (1992), Lowenfield v. Phelps (1987)
25 federal appellate · 12 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Gideon v. Wainwright · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Pointer v. Texas · Rochin v. People of California · Duncan v. State of Louisiana
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“essential to the fair and impartial conduct of the trial,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Our review of petitioner's contention that the jury was improperly coerced requires that we consider the supplemental charge given by the trial court 'in its context and under all the circumstances.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jimenez v. Myers · Jiminez v. Myers“[W]e do not think that the proper administration of the law requires such knowledge or permits such a question on the part of the presiding judge.”
2 later decisions 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.