Cox v. MacKenzie’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably Bill by and Through Bill v. Gossett (1982), Fox v. Weissbach (1953)
24 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 United States v. Throckmorton · Bacon v. Bacon · Tube City Mining & Milling Co. v. Otterson · Dockery v. Central Arizona Light & Power Co. · Laun v. Kipp
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * where an action has for its primary purpose the obtaining of independent relief, and the vacating or setting aside of a judgment is merely incidental thereto, such action is not a direct, but a collateral, attack upon the judgment.” Cox v. Mackenzie, 70 Ariz. 308, 312 , 219 P.2d 1048, 1051 (1950); Bates v. Mitchell, 67 Ariz. 151, 154 , 192 P.2d 720, 722 (1948) ; Schuster v. Schuster, 51 Ariz. 1, 5 , 73 P.2d 1345, 1347 (1937); Dockery v. Central Arizona Light & Power Co., 45 Ariz. 434, 445 , 45 P.2d 656, 660 (1935).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It being a time honored maxim that the law rewards the diligent but not the slothful, a conclusion that the creditor should move to guard his rights is more logical than one that he should wait for his adversary to do it for him.” 70 Ariz. at 312, 219 P.2d at 1051 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a decree in the probate court has all of the conclusiveness inherent in a judgment of a common law court[,]”
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.