Miller v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
122 F.2d 209 · 1941
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 14 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1998 · most notably Bay Area Laundry & Dry Cleaning Pension Trust Fund v. Ferbar Corp. of California, Inc. (1997), Dewey v. Clark (1950)
40 federal appellate · 14 district · 18 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 Hiram Barber v. Huldah a Barber by Her Next Friend George Cronkhite · Sistare v. Sistare · Loughran v. Loughran · Whitaker v. Coleman · Curry v. MacKenzie
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The motion of. the plaintiff for summary judgment must be sustained. The pleadings, together with the affidavits, clearly show that there is no genuine issue as to 'any material fact, including the balance due to the plaintiff. Hence, as a matter of law, the plaintiff is entitled to judgment for the balance due with interest.””
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.