Higgins v. Higgins’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2007
13 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 Cox v. JEFFERSON-PILOT FIRE AND CASUALTY COMPANY · 69 N.C. App. 483 - Buffington v. Buffington · Murphy v. Murphy · In re Will of King · 79 N.C. App. 465 - Love v. Mewborn
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is that parties (or at least one party) will be penalized for trying to reconcile if he or she is unsuccessful in that attempt”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“goal of judicial efficiency, it undermines the goal of judicial integrity”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“resurrect Murphy from a well-deserved demise,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.