Higgins v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1966
8 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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All the qualified voters, therefore, of that part of election district No. 3, now forming election district No. 6, had a right and were called upon to vote at the election in May, 1876, for or against the adoption of the prohibitory law, and the result of that election subjected the entire population of district No. 3, as then constituted, to the provisions of the act, and the subsequent division of the district has not had the effect of restricting the operation of the act to only a part of the original territory in which it applied and for which it was adopted. The mere change of name or number, as applied to part of the district, certainly should have no such effect, and that is really all that has been done in this case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Donovan
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.