Cox v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 290
Relies on Warner v. Orange County Department of Probation · MATTER OF GRIFFIN v. Coughlin · Keenan v. Gigante · People v. Carmona · Warner v. Orange County Department of Probation
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.
“[t]here is no principled basis for a court to hold that A.A. is a religion for Establishment Clause purposes, and yet that disclosure of wrongs to a fellow member as ordained by the Twelve Steps does not qualify for purposes of a privilege granted to other religions similarly situated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cox v. Miller“Clearly it is possible as a matter of Constitutional law to have and to practice a religion without having a clergyman as such, or where all members exercise the office of clergyman to the extent of receiving confessions or confidences.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cox v. Miller“numerous remaining challenges to [his] conviction... have been considered by this Court to the extent that any of them alone or together arise to a Constitutional level.... [They] are lacking in merit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cox v. Miller
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.