Higginbotham v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 1990 · most notably Hoodless v. Jernigan (1903), Hall v. State (1919)
29 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 Stewart v. Wyoming Cattle Ranche Co. · Commonwealth v. Sturtivant · Carroll v. State · Carney v. State · Matlock v. Todd
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Verdicts in criminal cases should be certain and-import a definite meaning, free from ambiguity. Any Avords Avhich convey, beyond reasonable doubt, the meaning and intention of the jury are sufficient, and all fair intendments Avill be made to support the verdict. If the intention is clearly manifested, bad spelling or faulty grammar Avill not vitiate the verdict.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Keeler 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.