Cox v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2021
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 Brady v. United States · McMann v. Richardson · Thom v. State · State v. Williams · Treat v. State
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The increased penalties for habitual offenders are not intended to follow according to a numerical count of the offender's crimes, but are imposed for his successive failures to rehabilitate himself. The result is that two or more offenses of a contemporaneous nature amount to but one offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pierce“Certainly the burglaries ... are all different offenses, and the plea of guilty to each one constituted conviction for a different offense. Cox at 209”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blackmon v. State“We like the logic of the Louisiana Supreme Court in the case of State of Louisiana v. Williams, 226 La. 862 , 77 So.2d 515 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pierce
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.