Higbee v. Rodeman’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably Sheets v. Vandalia Railway Co. (1920), Fall Creek School Township v. Shuman (1913)
25 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 Sumner v. Darnell · Hunt v. Beeson · Peoples Savings Bank v. Finney · Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis Railroad v. Barbour · Heaston v. Board of Commissioners
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The language used in the deed from Dunn to the township specifies the use to which the property would be put, but does not even tend to create a condition subsequent.””
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.