Hughes v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
December 1984
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Whitten v. Empire Fire & Marine Ins. Co.
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a lifting injury ... in 1971; a pedestrian auto accident ... in 1973; and an ... auto accident in 1974,”
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.