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Cox v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

21
cited by 21 later decisions
1
states following
April 2017
most recently cited

21 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Thacker v. State · Legue v. State · Powell v. State · Tunstill v. State · Bluck 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “'Prima facie means at first sight, on first appearance, or on the face of it”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “A court may not enhance a sentence for a defendant consistently maintaining his innocence if the defendant does so in good faith. Bluck v. State, 716 N.E.2d 507, 512 (Ind.Ct.App.1999). However, a trial court may consider as an aggravator the defendant’s lack of remorse. Id. at 513 . A lack of remorse is displayed by a defendant when he displays disdain or recalcitrance, the equivalent of “I don’t care.” Id. This is distinguished from the right to maintain one’s innocence, i.e., “I didn’t do it.” Id.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “The trial court is not obligated to give the evidence the same weight the defendant does.”
    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.