Millar v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1788
Citation profile
1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2007
1 district · 4 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 Busby v. Busby
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would be giving a superiority to some creditors, and affording them a double satisfactionto wit, a proportionable dividend of his property there, and the imprisonment of his person here.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“perpetual imprisonment must be the lot of every man who fails; and all hope of retrieving his losses by honest and industrious pursuits, will be cut off from the unfortunate bankrupt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the discharge of the Defendant in one state ought to be sufficient to discharge [a debtor] in every state.”
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.