Cox v. Osage County’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 1942
5 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.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If any person, by lunacy or otherwise, shall be furiously mad, or so far disordered in his mind as to endanger his own person or the person or property of others, it shall be the duty of his or her guardian, or other person under whose care he or she may be, and who is bound to provide for his or her support, to confine him or her in some suitable place until the next sitting of the probate court for the county, who shall make such order for the restraint . . . of such person as the circumstances of the case shall require.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If any such person of unsound mind, as in the last preceding section is specified, shall not be confined by the person having charge of him, or there be no person having such charge, any judge of a court of record, or any two justices of the peace, may cause such insane person to be apprehended, and may employ any person to confine him or her in some suitable place, until the probate court shall make further orders therein, as in the preceding section specified.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in some suitable place so as to protect the safety of the community until further orders from the court, or until the county court of Osage County can make suitable provisions for his safekeeping, and said sheriff will make due report to this court of his necessary expenditure of money in his behalf.”
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.