Higginbotham v. Harper’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 1986
23 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 Inman v. Quirey · Galloway v. Battaglia · Sledge-Norfleet Co. v. Matkins · The Lincoln Nat. Life Ins. Co. v. Wilson, Receiver · Crowell v. Seelbinder
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But assuming that appellee had a complete and adequate remedy at law and should have proceeded there, his failure to do so was not ground for dismissing the complaint as prayed in the demurrer. Section 1243, Pope’s Digest. 5 There was no motion to transfer to law, and the error, if error as to forum, was waived. ””
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.