Ellis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Lee v. Brown · North Star Steel Co. v. Thomas · Midland Central Appraisal District v. Midland Industrial Service Corp. · Toski v. McDonnell
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A petition for rehearing shall not be filed, as a matter of course, but only for the following reasons: (1) Some question decisive of the case and duly submitted by the attorney of record has been overlooked by the Court, or (2) The decision is in conflict with an express statute or controlling decision to which the attention of this Court was not called either in the brief or in oral argument.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pavatt v. Carpenter“[t]he alleged error here was one which could have been ascertained from previous casélaw”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“clearly could not raise a new issue in a petition for rehearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pavatt v. Carpenter
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.