Higgins v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2018
2 federal appellate · 17 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 Stoner v. Thompson · C & H TRANSPORTATION COMPANY v. Wright · Blumenthal v. Ameritex Computer Corp. · Freeman v. Leasing Associates, Inc. · Burrows v. Bowden
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the cause of action is unliquidated or be not proved by an instrument in writing, the court shall hear evidence as to damages and shall render judgment ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A person may recover reasonable attorney’s fees ... if the claim is for: ****** (8) an oral or written contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bloom v. Bloom
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.