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← 442 SW2D 696 - Cox v. State

Cox v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1969

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
May 2004
most recently cited

10 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · 5 Ohio App. 2d 122 - State v. Terry · Sanchez 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““The officer need not be absolutely certain that the individual is armed; the issue is whether a reasonably prudent man in the circumstances would be warranted in the belief that his safety or that of others was in danger.” See also Cox v. State, 442 S.W.2d 696 (Tex.Cr.App.1969).”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. ““Any peace officer may arrest, without warrant, persons found in suspicious places and under circumstances which reasonably show that such persons have been guilty of some felony or breach of the peace, or threaten, or are about to commit some offense against the laws.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. ““Any peace officer who shall fail or refuse to arrest such person on his own knowledge, or upon information from some reliable person, shall be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars.” (Emphasis supplied)”
    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.