Ellis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably Whitsey v. State (1990), Allridge v. State (1988)
20 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Lockett v. Ohio · Wainwright v. Witt · Adams v. Texas
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““... a person commits capital murder if he commits murder as defined under Section 19.02(a)(1) of the Penal Code and, in addition, ‘intentionally commits the murder in the course of committing or attempting to commit ... robbery.’ Sec. 19.03[ (a)(2), supra]. Section 19.02(a)(1) states that ‘A person commits [murder] if he intentionally or knowingly causes the death of an individual.’ Thus combined, a person commits capital murder who intentionally causes the death of an individual while intentionally doing so in the course of committing or attempting to commit robbery.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Demouchette v. State“caused the death of Bertie Elizabeth Eakins by asphyxiating the complainant in a manner and means unknown to the Grand Jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ellis v. Lynaugh“Hey, this is not what I bargained for. I will find me another job. Can't do it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ellis v. Lynaugh
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.