Higbee v. McMillan’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 1952
1 federal appellate · 11 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 Lake v. Doud
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.
““The law has abolished interest as a bar to competency of the witness ; and considering the other liberal legislative provisions regarding the testimony of married parties, for and against each other, the prohibition contained in said subdivision third of section 323 [Gen. Stat. 1901, §4771] should only apply where the letter of the law makes the same indispensable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lanning v. Gay
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.