Cox v. Delmas’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably 6 Cal. 3d 176 - Neel v. Magana, Olney, Levy, Cathcart & Gelfand (1971), 9 Cal. 4th 275 - Flatt v. Superior Court (1994)
3 federal appellate · 56 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 Felton v. Le Breton · Parrott v. Byers · McDowell v. Milroy
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Of course, the difficulty lies in applying the rule to particular cases; but the reason of the rule requiring a demand is that it would be unjust and inequitable to subject a defendant to litigation without first notifying him of plaintiff’s claim so that he might have an opportunity of compliance with it.without the annoyance and expense of a suit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The relation between attorney and client is a fiduciary relation of the very highest character.”
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.