State v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 1946
20 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 Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts · United States v. Kirby · In re Chapman · Crane v. Campbell · Parrot v. Wells, Fargo & Co.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ... The legislature intended to prohibit persons from possessing intoxicants when they know or have reasonable ground to believe or have an opportunity to know that they possess intoxicating liquor; but the prohibition does not include the person who neither knows nor suspects nor has reasonable ground to believe nor has an opportunity to know that a suitcase, which is temporarily in his custody, contains intoxicating liquor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Raper““ Except as hereinafter provided in this amendatory act, it shall be unlawful for any person to receive, import, possess, transport, deliver, manufacture, sell, give away, or barter any intoxicating liquor within this state. * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Williams
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.