Higginbotham v. Lofton’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently August 1986 · most notably 492 So. 2d 1193 - Bergeron v. Bergeron (1986), Decker v. Landry (1955)
40 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 Pullen v. Pullen · Brewton v. Brewton · Newson v. Newson · Newson v. Newson · O'Dwyer v. Natal
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Without going into detail, we are of the opinion that the defendant is not a person of proper moral character to whom the child can be intrusted. This apparently was the conclusion reached by the trial judge, since he gave the custody of the child, alternately, to plaintiff and the great grandparents."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]n all cases of separation and of divorce the children shall be placed under the care of the party who shall have obtained the separation or divorce unless the judge shall, for the greater advantage of the children, order that some or all of them shall be entrusted to the care of the other party.”
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.