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Cox v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1909

Citation profile

89
cited by 89 later decisions
2
states following
August 1988
most recently cited

89 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently August 1988 · most notably Skumro v. State (1936), Smith v. State (1916)

89 state decisions

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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 Ware v. Cartledge · Doe ex dem. Nickles v. Haskins · Griffin v. Working Women's Home Ass'n · Washington v. State

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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““The latitude and extent of such cross-examination, however, is a matter that must, of necessity, rest largely, if not exclusively, within the sound discretion of the trial court, and, so long as that discretion is not abused, the action of the trial court will not be revised on appeal.””
    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.