Cox v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1865
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 1993
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Greenleaf v. Kellogg · Hastings v. Wiswall
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f unreasonable counsel fees were allowed [in the contract], the court would interpose its authority to protect the mortgagor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“in case ... [a] holder hereof shall commence a suit to enforce [the note obligation], then it shall be lawful for the said payee or the holder hereof to have and demand upon the same ten (10) per cent, upon the amount which shall be recovered thereon as a reasonable indemnity for attorney and counsel fees....”
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.