Smith v. Higgins’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
October 2004
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bailey v. Reeves · Fann v. McGuffey · Bolin v. Grider · Duncan v. Beck · Davis v. Dever
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Continuing or enduring in the same state, status, place, or the like, without fundamental or marked change, not subject to fluctuation, or alteration, fixed or intended to be fixed; lasting; abiding; stable; not temporary or transient. Generally opposed in law to “temporary, but not always meaning perpetual.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McKinney v. Heisel
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.