Higgins v. Higgins’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 1999
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 Hatchett v. Blanton · McKleroy v. Musgrove · Humes v. Higman · McGowin v. Robinson · Hunter v. Parkman
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The enterprise in which the parties were to engage must have been launched under the agreement before the parties became partners. 68 C.J.S. Partnership § 11, [p.] 419.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]ut the essentials necessary to the real purpose of the partnership were never completed and its operation never begun,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“agree to become partners in the business of buying and selling groceries.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.