Cox v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 1964
5 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 McCorkle v. Chapman · Conley v. Commonwealth · Caudill v. Caudill · Mannin v. Commonwealth
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The photograph merely gives to the jury an idea of the appearance of the man when in a normal state, and the Commonwealth' might have proven that 'by some of the witnesses, hence we can not see how he was prejudiced by the photograph, though we admit its introduction was error.””
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.