Limberg v. Higginbotham’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 1922
6 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 Lewis v. Harwood · Harlan v. Eureka Mining Co. · 26 La. Ann. 141 - Hunter v. Dunham
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There was nothing alleged in the petition showing that the rights or remedies of the petitioner could in any way be affected by the judgment which might be entered between the parties plaintiffs and defendant in the case,' or that the petitioner had such an interest in the matter in litigation that he would gain or lose by the direct legal operation and effect of such judgment.””
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.