Commonwealth v. Higgs’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
2
states following
May 2013
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Soberon v. United States · Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona · Michelson v. United States · Hope v. Commissioner · Gideon v. Cochran
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]either constitutes a guarantee of a reduction of the sentence; but both potentially affect the actual duration of a period of imprisonment....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martin v. Chandler
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.