309 F. Supp. 635 - Higgins v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 2010
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1338
Relies on First Nat. Bank of Ariz. v. Cities Service Co. · Douglas v. Alabama · Royal Netherlands Steamship Co. v. Strachan Shipping Co. · Arnstein v. Porter · Rosemont Enterprises Inc. v. Random House, Inc.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“incumbent upon movant to establish to the Court's satisfaction the absence of a genuine issue of fact.... In essence, then, the Court is obligated to search the record and independently determine whether or not a genuine issue of fact exists.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Court has considered the extensive affidavits submitted by defendants, and is impressed with the arguments presented therein. However, these affidavits remain untested. That is, whether the allegedly copied passages could only be expressed in a narrowly circumscribed manner will best be determined at trial after testimony is given and subjected to the rigorous scrutiny of cross-examination. Affidavits are obviously incapable of similarly thorough testing and inspection and, therefore, should not be dispositive of central issues of fact.”
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.