Cox v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2023 · most notably State v. Keene (1998), 134 S. Ct. 881 - Burrage v. United States (2014)
40 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 Strickland v. Washington · Dixon v. State · White v. State · Rogers v. State · McDaniel 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Causation may be found when the result would not have occurred but for the conduct of the defendant' operating either alone or concurrently with another cause unless: (1) The concurrent cause was clearly sufficient to produce the result; and (2) The conduct of the defendant was clearly insufficient to produce the result”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Rollf v. State · Porter v. State“[Petitioner] and [petitioner’s son] ... attended the Independence Day celebration at the Clear Creek Bridge near Mena on July 4, 1989. Late in the day [petitioner’s son], an adult, was setting off fireworks, when Freddie Harrison, a war veteran, said the fireworks made him nervous. He asked [petitioner’s son] to stop setting them off [Petitioner’s son] refused, and Harrison started to shove him around. [Petitioner] said, “Stop it, if you all don’t stop it, somebody’s gonna get hurt.” Harrison knocked [petitioner’s son] to the ground. [Petitioner] reached into his nearby van, grabbed a .25 caliber pistol, and fired three to five shots at Harrison; hitting him in the chest and side. Harrison fell to the ground near a road. Jonathan Cox, a bystander, went to Harrison and attempted to aid him, but [petitioner’s son] kicked him away. Harrison was still breathing at the time. [Petitioner’s son] dragged Harrison from the road over into some brush about two car lengths away. He returned to the van and said, “It’s not over with yet, we gotta finish it.” [Petitioner] handed him the pistol [Petitioner’s son] then disappeared into the nearby brush where he had left Harrison. A witness heard three more shots. [Petitioner’s son] reappeared and gave the pistol back to [petitioner]. Harrison’s body was later found by the police. He had been shot six times. Three of the bullet wounds were in his chest and side, and three more, which had been fired from only a few inches away, were in his head”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The issue of severance is to be determined on a case by case basis, considering the totality of the circumstances, with the following factors favoring severance: (1) where defenses are antagonistic; (2) where it is difficult to segregate the evidence; (3) where there is a lack of substantial evidence implicating one defendant except for the accusation of the other defendant; (4) where one defendant could have deprived the other of all peremptory challenges; (5) where if one defendant chooses to testify the other is compelled to do so; (6) where one defendant has no prior criminal record and the other has; (7) where circumstantial evidence against one defendant appears stronger than against the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rockett v. State
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.