United States v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis
985 F.2d 427 · 1993
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States v. Wacker (1995), United States v. Buchanan (1995)
31 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1621 · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3161 (§ 101 of the Speedy Trial Act of 1974) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Santobello v. New York · Tristani v. Eastern Air Lines, Inc. · Ricketts v. Adamson · Yeomans v. Kentucky · American Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. MCI Communications Corp.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court's approximation--based on Cox's own account of his activities--was not clearly erroneous.”
1 later decision 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.