McCutcheon v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably Sneed v. Cox (1964), State v. Crespin (1981)
41 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 Bailey v. United States · State v. Maestas · Hankins v. People · Binkley v. Hunter · Territory of New Mexico v. Ketchum
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * tjje principies 0f indeterminate sentence, probation, paroles and pardons, in varying degrees, have been adopted. “These advocate a break from the definite and fixed sentence in favor of an indeterminate period • of punishment which would be proportioned to the progress of the prisoner toward rehabilitation. This is accomplished by making incarceration and its duration a matter within the discretion of competent parole authorities. In this manner the ‘punishment’ is made to fit the offender rather than the crime.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Any person confined in the state penitentiary who shall escape or attempt to escape therefrom shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned in the state penitentiary for not less than two [2] years, which sentence shall not run concurrently with any other sentence such person then be serving.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Cox““* * * The court in imposing such sentence shall sentence the person for the term as prescribed by law for the particular crime of which he was convicted. ' The term of imprisonment of any person so convicted shall not exceed the maximum nor be less than the minimum term fixed by law. * * * ” (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Romero
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.