Cox & Smith Inc. v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2016
2 federal appellate · 14 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 73rd Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks · Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. · Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Do you know why they have outlawed short skirts in Washington D.C.?” When prompted, the employee said, “[B]ecause Hillary Clinton’s balls would hang out.”
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.