Ellzey v. James’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
June 2011
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 435 So. 2d 683 - Cotton v. McConnell · Thigpen v. Kennedy · Crabb v. Comer · Willenbrock v. Brown · Patterson v. Koerner
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In this case, Ellzey transferred the mineral interests to James in order to conceal his assets from Medicaid.... Ellzey invoked the aid of the chancery court to remedy a problem created by his own fraudulent act. The chancellor appropriately held that Ellzey was not entitled to relief because he sought to use “the chancellor’s hands to draw equity from a source his own hands had polluted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.