Higgans v. Deskins’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 1999
2 federal appellate · 9 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 Home Laundry Co. v. Cook · Webb v. Dixie-Ohio Express Co., Inc. · Spencer's Administrator v. Fisel · Packard-Louisville Motor Co. v. O'Neal · Sharp v. Faulkner
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n owner who merely loans his car to another person, though it be his employee, is not liable for his negligence while the borrower is using it for his own purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McGrew v. Stone
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.