Swersky v. Higgins’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Noll v. Rahal (1979), Wright v. Kaye (2004)
2 federal appellate · 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 E. I. duPont deNemours & Co. v. Universal Moulded Products Corp. · Richmond Locomotive Works v. Ford · Savage v. Bowen · Adams v. Ristine · Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Meyer
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A trial court will not be reversed for allowing a witness to testify as an expert unless it appears clearly that he was not qualified in the field in which he gives evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hinkley v. Koehler
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.