Cox's Case’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
1 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably LaClair v. Silberline Manufacturing Co., Inc. (1979), Bogoratt v. Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. (1932)
1 district · 48 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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 Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. Washington ex rel. Atkinson · Young v. Duncan · Pigeon's Case · Gould's Case · Corbett v. Boston & Maine Railroad
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If an employer becomes a subscriber he becomes a subscriber for all purposes as to all branches of one business with respect to all those in his service under any contract of hire. All the terms of the act are framed upon the basis that the employer is either wholly within or altogether outside its operation. There is no suggestion or any phrase warranting the inference that there can be a divided or partial insurance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“those conducting two wholly different and distinct kinds of business quite disconnected with each other in place, nature and management.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“assumed an obligation as broad as the Act,”
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.