Higgins v. Higgins’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
March 2017
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Rowland v. Lepire · Summa Corp. v. Greenspun · York v. York
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a judgment is conclusive not only on the questions actually contested and determined but on all matters which might have been litigated and decided in the suit.”
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.