Higgins v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2017
2 federal appellate · 15 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 Hawk v. Olson · 51 Tex. Civ. App. 568 - Harkins v. Murphy & Bolanz
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It may be freely granted, ... that the word ‘counsel’ appearing in [the state and federal constitutions], all of which guarantee the accused in a criminal case the right to the assistance of counsel means a duly licensed lawyer, and not a mere attorney in fact or layman. But the question here is whether the criminal prosecution ... is now subject to attack ... merely because one of the two counsel ... was not a licensed lawyer, although the other one was.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State
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.