People v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 1979
15 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 People v. Finley · People v. Stubenvoll · People v. Blake
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The saloon is to be closed all day, and the opening of the same once or a dozen times is the same in the eye of the law. If it is not closed all day, the law is infracted, and if it is open all day the law is broken. The statute is violated by its not being closed, and the law does not ordinarily divide a day unless the intent of the Legislature is clear.” People v. Cox, 70 Mich. 250 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Ackerman““It is not easy to define a ‘reasonable doubt.’ In most cases it is as well, if not better, to leave it undefined save as the words themselves carry their own definition.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Trudell
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.