Miller v. Grandy’s Empirical Analysis
1865
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1985
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ This bill can only be sustained by holding that every private citizen has the right to call public officers to account for their official misconduct, affecting the body politic, and not specially one man more than another. There were a few cases decided in the Supreme Court of New York, which recognized such a right; but they have been overruled repeatedly, and the doctrine is now well settled that a private taxpayer, suffering under no special grievance, is not even a proper party to a bill filed to restrain threatened misconduct. * * * And grievances which afflict, the community must be redressed by those to whom the law has intrusted the duty of interference.””
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.