Higdon v. Wayne County Security Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 1942
12 state decisions
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Most-quoted passages
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““It is. insisted for appellant that judgment should have been entered in favor of Higdon on the pleadings, as no reply was filed to his answer. But the allegations of the answer that Higdon owned a certain part of the boundary which the plaintiff alleged it owned was simply an affirmative traverse of the allegations of the petition, and no reply was necessary.” Higdon v. Wayne County, 154 Ky. 337 , 157 S. W. 708 .”
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.