Highberger v. Stiffler’s Empirical Analysis
1864
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably 91 Md. App. 123 - Travel Committee, Inc. v. Pan American World Airways, Inc. (1992), 7 Cal. App. 14 - Nobles v. Hutton (1907)
2 federal appellate · 59 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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.
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All contracts and conveyances whereby benefits are secured by children to their parents, are objects of jealousy, and if they are not entered into with scrupulous good faith and are not reasonable under the circumstances, they will be set aside, unless third persons have acquired an interest under them, especially where the original purposes for which they have been obtained are perverted or used as a mere cover.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Paddock v. Pulsifer
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.