Cox v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2001 · most notably Culombe v. Connecticut (1961), Dempsey v. State (1976)
44 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 McNabb v. United States · Townsend v. Burke · United States v. Mitchell · United States Bilokumsky v. Tod · Upshaw v. United States
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * before a confession is admissible in evidence the State must show to the satisfaction of the trial judge that it was freely and voluntarily made by the accused, that no force or coercion was exercised to obtain the confession, and that no hope or promise of reward was held out to the accused for the purpose of obtaining it. * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Probability is the only requirement. If there is room for doubt, the decision was one on the weight of the evidence and not on any question of admissibility.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.