Ellis v. Black’s Empirical Analysis
732 F.2d 650 · 1984
Citation profile
24 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably United States v. Woolbright (1987), Davis v. Wyrick (1985)
24 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Davis v. Alaska · Alford v. United States · Lisenba v. People of State of California · Juidice v. Vail
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'gross', Taylor v. Minnesota, 466 F.2d 1119 , 1121 (8th Cir.1972), cert. denied, 410 U.S. 956 [93 S.Ct. 1425, 35 L.Ed.2d 689] (1973), 'conspicuously prejudicial', United States ex rel. Cannon v. Maroney, 373 F.2d 908 , 910 (3d Cir.1967), or otherwise of such magnitude that it fatally infected the trial and failed to afford petitioner the fundamental fairness which is the essence of due process. Lisenba v. California, 314 U.S. 219 , 236 [62 S.Ct. 280, 86 L.Ed. 166] (1941).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wood v. Al Lockhart
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.