Higgins v. Karp’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. (1999), Ral Management, Inc. v. Valley View Associates (2006)
37 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 Novella v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. · 21 Conn. App. 275 - Town of Voluntown v. Rytman · Martyn v. Donlin · Town of Voluntown v. Rytman · Suffield Bank v. Berman
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n attorney's allegiance is to his client, not to the person who happens to be paying for his services. . . . Thus, even when an attorney is compensated. . . by a liability insurer, his or her duty of loyalty and representation nonetheless remains exclusively with the insured.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The determination of whether to set aside [a] default is within the discretion of the trial court.”
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.