Higginbotham v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1999 · most notably Weaver v. Graham (1981), Carter v. State (1984)
37 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 Bowen v. Stewart · State v. Ryan · Mathis v. State · People v. Mortimer · Cole County v. Dallmeyer
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`One which, in its operation, makes that criminal which was not so at the time the action was performed, or which increases the punishment, or, in short, which in relation to the offense or its consequences, alters the situation of a party to his disadvantage.'"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The fact that it might have been difficult or would have consumed considerable time to have procured a qualified jury to have tried the defendant is not sufficient to warrant a change of venue, against the consent of defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“giving other facts that at least tend to indicate the practicability of getting a proper jury in the county....”
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.