Higdon v. Gates’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Leeds Building Products, Inc. v. Sears Mortgage Corp. (1996), Woelper v. Piedmont Cotton Mills, Inc. (1996)
15 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 Thornton v. Reb Properties, Inc. · Barrett v. Simmons · Coniff v. Hunnicutt · Citizens Bank v. Taylor · Lawhorn v. Steele
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not properly attested or acknowledged, as required by statute, is ineligible for recording.”
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.