Miller v. McConnell’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently May 1942
3 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.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The only effect of a reversal on account of the technical lapse of the pleaders would be to impose costs upon appellees, with no benefit whatever to appellants. While technical rules of pleading and practice are maintained and are valuable to protect the rights of parties, the modern practice and aim as brought about by our Code system is to prevent them being used, as formerly, to defeat the ends of justice. When they cease to protect the complainant, and are invoked by him merely to injure the other party, they ought to be ignored by the courts after judgment upon the merits.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Catron v. Jones
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.