Bohlinger v. Higginbotham’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2003
20 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 Malone v. Meres · Commissioner of Insurance v. Massachusetts Accident Co. · Camp Phosphate Co. v. Anderson · Quigley v. Cremin · 57 So. 2d 581 - Feller v. Equitable Life Assur. Soc.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Upon the rendition of a judgment or decree by any of the courts of this state against an insurer and in favor of an insured or the name beneficiary under a policy or contract executed by the insurer, the trial court, or, in the event of an appeal in which the insured or beneficiary prevails, the appellate court shall adjudge or decree against the insurer and in favor of the insured or beneficiary a reasonable sum as fees or compensation for the insured's or beneficiary's attorney prosecuting the suit in which the recovery is had."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Courts are bound to take notice of the limits of their authority and if want of jurisdiction appears at any stage of the proceedings, original or appellate, the court should notice the defect and enter an appropriate order.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Greene v. Greene
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.