Miles v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
103 U.S. 304 · 1880
Citation profile
122 federal appellate · 11 district · 144 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 353 later decisions (38 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably In the Matter of Samuel Winship (1970), Witherspoon v. Illinois (1968)
122 federal appellate · 11 district · 144 state decisions — followed in 36 states
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 Reynolds v. States · Clinton v. Englebrecht · Giles v. State · Arnold v. State
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 353 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'(a)ttempts to explain the term "reasonable doubt”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A juror in a criminal case ought not to condemn unless the evidence excludes from his mind all reasonable doubt; unless he be so convinced by the evidence, no matter what the class of the evidence, of the defendant’s guilt, that a prudent man would feel safe to act upon that conviction in matters of the highest concern and importance to his own dearest personal interests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]roof beyond a reasonable doubt is such as will produce an abiding conviction in the mind to a moral certainty....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.