Cox v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2008
20 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 Sieben v. Torrey · Blunson v. Knighton · Fuller v. Fair · Hill v. Johnson · De Loach v. White
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.
“"`If, under the averments, Complainant is entitled to relief of the character prayed, the Court under the general prayer will mold the relief to meet the equities as they appear.' (See Dees v. Dees, [ 285 Ala. 597 ], 235 So.2d [236] at page 237 [1970]; Wood v. Cantrell, [ 224 Ala. 294 ], 140 So. 345 [1932]; Cox v. Cox, [ 267 Ala. 372 ], 102 So.2d 23 [1958]; Crawford v. Crawford, 349 So.2d 65 [Ala.Civ.App.1977])."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Courts have full power over their officers making execution or judicial sales, and whenever satisfied that a sale made under any legal process is infected with fraud, oppression, irregularity or error to the injury of either party, the sale will be set aside.”
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.