State v. Higgins’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
2 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably State v. Kirby (1970), State v. Britt (1974)
2 district · 51 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 State v. Stewart · State v. Courtney · State v. . McCollum · State v. . Hobbs · State v. Davie
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A motion in arrest of judgment is one made after verdict and to prevent entry of judgment, and is based upon the insufficiency of the indictment or some other fatal defect appearing on the face of the record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Kirby
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.