Higgins v. Higgins’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably Matter of Anderson (1974), Bailes v. Sours (1986)
26 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 Mullen v. Mullen · Raiford v. Raiford · Forbes v. Haney · Hoffecker v. Hoffecker · Campbell v. Campbell
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a cause is referred to a commissioner in chancery the chancellor does not delegate his judicial function to him. . . . It is the duty of the chancellor to weigh the evidence according to correct principles of law and arrive at his own conclusions.”
3 later decisions 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.