Harper v. Higgs’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 6 district · 100 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably Simmons v. State (1988), Nizer v. Phelps (1969)
9 federal appellate · 6 district · 100 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 National Labor Relations Board v. F. W. Woolworth Co. · Botta v. Brunner · Faught Ex Rel. Faught v. Washam · Imperial Oil, Ltd. v. Drlik · Greenfeld v. Hook
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The relative rights of travellers on the two intersecting roads are not to be held to depend on nice calculations of speed, time and distance lest the obvious and essential purposes of the boulevard rule to accelerate the flow of traffic over the through highway at the permitted speed, without interruption, be frustrated. The favored driver has a right to assume the unfavored driver will stop and yield the right of passage and therefore, in most instances, even though the favored driver does not see the unfavored car he will not be guilty of negligence proximately causing the accident for, if he had seen it he could, unless put on notice to the contrary, have assumed it would stop.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““one of the very things Greenfeld v. Hook [ 177 Md. 116 , 8 A.2d 888 , 136 A.L.R. 1485 (1939)] said could endanger an unfavored driver who entered a boulevard without negligence, that is, ‘some defect in the motor’ which prevented control of the car.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We think the instant case presents one of those rare instances in which the conduct of the favored driver was properly subject to a jury’s determination of its reasonableness and prudence under the circumstances.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Grady v. Brown · Racine v. Wheeler
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.