Cox v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Root v. Allstate Insurance Company (1968), Bowen v. CONSTRUCTORS EQUIPMENT RENTAL COMPANY (1973)
8 federal appellate · 39 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 Schubert v. August Schubert Wagon Co. · Small Ex Rel. Balthis v. Morrison · Davenport v. . Patrick · Chase v. New Haven Waste Material Corporation · Shoe v. Hood
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“contract implied in law is a quasi contract, which may result either from a tortious wrong, as in our case, or from one that is contractual”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where the beneficiary of an estate is culpably responsible for the decedent’s death, he may not share in the administrator’s recovery for wrongful death. The identity of beneficiaries entitled to share in the recovery is determined as of the time of decedent’s death. Davenport v. Patrick, 227 N.C. 686 , 44 S.E. 2d 203 . Here, had plaintiffs intestate died a natural death, her beneficiaries would have been her husband, her son, and her daughter. G.S. 29-14(2). Under the circumstances, however, only the daughter will be entitled to benefit from any recovery which the administrator may obtain in this action. Therefore, should the jury return a verdict in plaintiffs favor, the court will enter judgment for only one-third of the amount.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carver v. Carver
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.