State v. Ellis’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 2024
17 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 Bruton v. United States · Richardson v. Marsh · Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. v. Smith · State v. Knight · State v. McKenzie
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[sjimply because a question might be capable of scientific determination, helpful lay testimony touching on the issue and based on personal observation does not become expert opinion. It is true that “if [a question] is capable of scientific determination, then expert testimony is admissible with respect to it”; however, that does not mean that lay opinion testimony is prohibited if the provisions of the evidentiary rule are met.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“that the trial court erred when it admitted the lay opinion testimony of Bruce Austin. Mr. Austin, a security guard and former police officer, was one of the first to arrive at the scene. He examined the premises and discovered two sets of footprints in the mud beneath the broken window, as well as footprints inside the house leading away from the broken window. During his testimony, Mr. Austin compared the footprints outside the house to those inside. He said that one .exhibit, a photograph of a footprint “with the distinctive heel marking appeared to be the one on the inside of the carpet.” The trial court admitted the testimony, reasoning that a witness is allowed to testify from personal experience and observation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Yalowski“To invoke the Bruton doctrine, a statement must be powerfully and facially incriminating with respect to the other defendant and must directly, rather than indirectly, implicate the complaining defendant in the commission of the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Calliham
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.