Miller v. . Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 1927
11 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 Morse v. . Morse · Delafield v. . Barlow
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Upon the death of Charles E. Miller, therefore, the trust terminated and the real estate vested as such in his children; and as that death occurred before judgment, in order that they might be found by the judgment, they should have been made parties to the action and their title could not be divested by a sale made in partition to which they were not parties. Indeed, the plaintiff, upon the death of his grantor, ceased to have any interest in the land, and the action could not well thereafter proceed in his name, but should have proceeded in the name of some person interested in the land.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Allen v. Merrill““It is not disputed that the trusts created by this deed were lawful, and that a legal title, commensurate with the trusts and for the purposes of the trusts, was vested in the trustee during the continuance thereof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Allen v. Merrill
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.