Higgins v. Lansingh’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently September 1977 · most notably Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co. v. Bigelow (1909), Irving Trust Co. v. Deutsch (1934)
6 federal appellate · 60 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 Twin-Lick Oil Company v. Marbury · Scovill v. Thayer · Kent v. . Quicksilver Mining Co. · Davoue v. Fanning · Marsh v. Whitmore
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is immaterial whether the transaction was fair or not. * * * In many cases it would be impossible to ascertain whether the agent did or did not obtain the best terms for the principal which it was possible to obtain.””
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.