Higgins v. Higgins’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently November 1997 · most notably Ward v. Sampson (1946), Deke v. Huenkemeier (1919)
7 federal appellate · 38 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 Dorn v. Geuder · Hughes v. Noyes · Freeman v. Hartman · Morrill v. Kilner
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * It is as much a fraud for a man, on the eve of his marriage, unknown to his wife, to make a voluntary conveyance of property to defeat the interests which she would acquire in the property by virtue of her marriage, as it is for a debtor who contemplates contracting a debt to voluntarily dispose of his property in order to defeat the interest of future creditors. 14 Am. & Eng. Ency. of Law (2d Ed.) 252. * * *”
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.