Lott v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 1990 · most notably State v. Harris (1984), State v. Tipton (1967)
37 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 French v. Cox · State v. McCraw
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Habitual criminality, however, is a status rather than an offense, so that allegations -of prior convictions do not constitute a ■charge of a distinct crime, but only relate to the punishment to be imposed in the last case in which the accused was convicted of a felony in this state.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Tipton““* * * does the statute require that sentence be first imposed in the felony conviction and then vacated before the increased punishment prescribed by the Habitual Criminal Act may be imposed?””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bonner
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.