Ives v. . Ellis’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 1960
12 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedIves v. Ellis
Relationships
Relies on 12 E.H. Smith 299 - Hopkins v. . Clark · Holmes v. . Moffat · 3 E.H. Smith 99 - People v. . Schooley · Pollock v. . Pennsylvania Iron Works Company
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I desire particularly to caution you to disregard entirely in your deliberations the contents of the letter written by Mr. Ellis to Mr. Ives in response to the latter's inquiry. That letter was admitted solely for the purpose of proving its receipt by Mr. Ives and not to bring before you any of the matters therein contained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. . Patrick
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.