Mills v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1850
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a flagrant crime at common law to attempt to procure the miscarriage or abortion of the woman .... It is a crime against nature which obstructs the fountain of life, and therefore it is punished”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.