Miller v. Yates’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 1969 · most notably Stanolind Oil & Gas Co. v. State (1939), State v. Atlantic Oil Producing Co. (1937)
3 federal appellate · 24 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law charged Miller with knowledge of all material facts which he must have known had he elected to avail himself of his statutory right to ascertain the correctness of the land office sketches and map. Having elected not to avail himself of his statutory right, but having in effect represented to the land office by presentation of the corrected field notes that he no longer asserted claim or title to anything without the bounds of the corrected survey, his rights thereafter were precisely the same as though the file and surveys had stood from the beginning as corrected.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““We conclude that the effect of filing the corrected field notes and of accepting the patent thereon was the loss by M. C. Miller of any claim or interest in the land sued for.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Proctor v. Markham
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.