329 So. 2d 917 - Cox v. Watts’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2001
12 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 Calhoun v. State · Brown v. Town of Lake Providence · Certified Finance Co. v. Jones · 199 So. 2d 542 - Morehouse Parish Police Jury v. Wild Life & Fisheries Commission
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well established that it is the function of appellate courts to render judgments which can be made effective and not to give opinions on moot questions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Favrot v. Favrot
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.