Cox v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Dishman v. State (1998), Townes v. State (1988)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 67 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 General Motors Corp. v. Lahocki · State v. Faulkner · 53 Md. App. 171 - Walker v. State · State v. Ward · Hardy 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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person is guilty of a criminal attempt when, with intent to commit a crime, the person engages in conduct which constitutes a substantial step toward the commission of that crime whether or not his intention is accomplished.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) There must have been adequate provocation; (2) The killing must have been in the heat of passion; (3) It must have been a sudden heat of passion — that is, the killing must have followed the provocation before there had been a reasonable opportunity for the passion to cool; (4) There must have been a causal connection between the provocation, the passion, and the fatal act.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Holbron · Sims v. State“cannot exist by itself, but only in connection with another crime.”
2 later decisions 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.