Ellett v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 2016
24 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 Pitts v. State · English v. State · Clark v. State · LeDuc v. State · Day 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Owner’ means a person who has title to the property, possession of the property, whether lawful or not, or a greater right to possession of the property than the actor. “ ‘Possession’ means actual care, custody, control or management.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mifflin 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.