Higgs v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably Mallory v. State (1991), Clark v. State (1999)
72 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Ohio v. Roberts · CHRYSLER MOTORS CORPORATION v. Davis · Lingerfelt v. State · Irby v. Brooks
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`a circumstantial guarantee of trustworthiness ... that is, there must be something present [in the making of the statements] which the law considers a substitute for the oath of the declarant and his [or her] cross examination by the party against whom the hearsay is offered.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“hearsay evidence is admissible in specified cases from necessity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mallory v. State“circumstantial guarantees of trustworthiness”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Slakman v. State
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.