Commonwealth v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently September 2000 · most notably Commonwealth v. Walker (1976), 256 Pa. Super. 259 - Commonwealth v. Reynolds (1978)
5 federal appellate · 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 30 Cal. 2d 589 - People v. Greer · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Moszczynski v. Ashe · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Shaddock v. Ashe · Bennett v. State · Hagopian v. Eskandarian
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]s long as a defendant is not punished twice for the same act he has no cause of complaint. . . . Sentence having been suspended in indictment No. 69, this assignment of error is overruled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. . . the sentence imposed can be no greater than would have been proper had the conviction been one count only.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“one unlawful act may constitute more than one crime.”
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.