Cox v. McCarthy’s Empirical Analysis
829 F.2d 800 · 1987
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Williams v. Lara (2001), Rodriguez v. Hayes (2009)
37 federal appellate · 3 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 Fay v. Noia · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Sosna v. Iowa · Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“capable of repetition, yet evading review.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A case is 'capable of repetition' only when there is a 'reasonable expectation that the same complaining party will be subjected to the same action again.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]his court has held that a class action may lie in habeas corpus,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.