Ellison v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that appeals are statutory creatures and were unknown to the common law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Baldwin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1977-02-01· cited 17×
• Messelt v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1977-02-01· cited 8×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1984-06-12· cited 6×
• Seibert v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1975-08-19· cited 6×
• Cantrell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1977-12-20· cited 6×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1985-08-20· cited 5×
• St. John v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1978-05-02· cited 5×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1979-08-21· cited 5×
• White v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1975-04-22· cited 4×
• Goolsby v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1978-12-19· cited 3×
• Traveka Stanley, Reginald Burrell, Charlie Gray, Jermaine Pringle, and Ranquel Smith v. Kay Ivey, Governor of Alabama, and John Hamm, Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Corrections, in their official capacities
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2025-09-05

Cites

26 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Swenson v. Bosler
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-13· cited 284×
• Entsminger v. Iowa
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 232×
• Aldridge v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1965-09-30· cited 75×
• Cox v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1967-01-12· cited 69×
• Relf v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1957-11-07· cited 66×
• City of Huntsville v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1958-10-16· cited 61×
• Allen v. State
  Alabama Court of Appeals· 1963-02-19· cited 48×
• William Leon Horsley v. C. M. Simpson, Warden, Kilby Prison, Montgomery, Alabama
  Fifth Circuit· 1968-09-16· cited 38×
• Thompson v. Lea
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1856-01-15· cited 28×
• State v. Bibby
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1971-08-17· cited 23×
• Nathaniel Daniels v. State of Alabama
  Fifth Circuit· 1973-11-13· cited 17×
• Massey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1972-10-03· cited 17×
• Allison v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1967-06-22· cited 16×
• Massey v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1973-01-18· cited 15×
• Wyatt v. Judge
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1838-01-15· cited 15×
• William Tyrone Harris v. W. J. Estelle, Director, Texas Department of Corrections
  Fifth Circuit· 1973-11-01· cited 11×
• Carter v. Hinkle
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1848-01-15· cited 11×
• Alabama Public Service Commission v. McGill
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1954-03-04· cited 10×
• Ex Parte Mitchell
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1974-11-26· cited 9×
• Bates v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1974-03-05· cited 8×