Fox v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 1979
18 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 Pennsylvania Co. v. Weddle · Walker v. Steele · Adams v. Davis · City of Lafayette v. Nagle · Creighton v. Hoppis
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not necessary that a witness should be an expert before testifying in such a case. The extent of a witness’ knowledge before being permitted to testify as to values is within the discretion of the trial court, and it is only where there is a total lack of such knowledge, or there is a palpable abuse of discretion, that the appellate tribunal will interfere. It is shown the witnesses had some knowledge of the subject-matter, and of the particular property. The record shows they were competent to testify, the weight of their testimony was for the court. “The extent of a witness’ knowledge of the subject-matter about which he testifies as to values, goes to the weight of his testimony and not to its competency.””
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.