Mann v. Higgins’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 1989
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 Breckinridge v. Crocker
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in common language, and sometimes even among lawyers, the two words are frequently used synonymously.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that evidence which comes from living witnesses who testify orally.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.