Miller v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 1931
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 Ferguson v. . Crawford · Hume v. Conduitt · Wall v. Trumbull · Franse v. Owens · Fulkerson v. Davenport
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.
““Justices’ courts are hereby vested with all such powers, for the purpose of exercising jurisdiction conferred by this chapter,- as are usual in courts of record, except the power of setting aside a verdict and arresting judgment thereon.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““I think, not only is the weight of authority in favor of the doctrine that a judgment of this character cannot, in a collateral proceeding, be impeached by parol, but that it is in accordance with good sense and common honesty.””
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.