Cox v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 1978
6 federal appellate · 4 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 Johnson v. Lutz · Commonwealth v. Harris · 14 E.H. Smith 330 - Reed v. . McCord · Hempton v. State · Williams v. Alexander
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The theory upon which this class of evidence [admissions] is held to be competent is that it is highly improbable that a party will admit or state anything against himself or his own interest unless it is true. . . . This reasoning is obviously inapplicable where, as here, the so-called admission is not made by a party but merely by its employee who has no interest in the outcome of the litigation and thus has no incentive to carefully check the correctness of the statements he makes.”
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.