Cox v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably Whitaker v. Whirlpool Corp. (2000), Knox County v. Moncier (1970)
2 federal appellate · 19 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 Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone Co. v. Givens · Brooksbank v. Leech · 7 Smith & H. 477 - Campbell v. Lewisberg & Northern R. R. · Union Planters' Bank & Trust Co. v. Memphis Hotel Co. · Johnson v. Roane County
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“20-13-102. Actions against state prohibited. — (a) No coui't in the state shall have any power, jurisdiction, or authority to entertain any suit against the state, or against any officer of the state acting by authority of the state, with a view to reach the state, its treasury, funds, or property, and all such suits shall be dismissed as to the state or such officers, on motion, plea, or demurrer of the law officer of the state, or counsel employed for the state.”
2 later decisions 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.