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← 183 SO3D 36 - Cox v. State

Cox v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2016

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
September 2018
most recently cited

7 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Enmund v. Florida · Rideau v. Louisiana · Tison v. Arizona · Clemons v. Mississippi · United States v. Eichman

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

  1. “[o]ur capital-murder statute has not been amended to meet the Tison Court's requirements. Our statute's language that allows a death sentence for those who”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “a jury cannot constitutionally impose a death sentence when it merely finds that the defendant 'contemplated' the use of lethal force.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  3. “the fourth category is hopelessly at odds with the United States Supreme Court's minimum requirements for the death penalty ....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence

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.