Miller v. Singer’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 1995
2 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Ress v. Rediess · Bartlett v. Hammond · Reyher v. Mayne · Mason v. Sieglitz · Meek v. Smith
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all those who actively participate in any manner in commission of a tort are jointly and severally liable therefor, and [because the tort is] integral and indivisible, either or any or all of the joint tort-feasors may be held liable for the whole of the damages resulting from their tortious act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]ll those who actively participate in any manner in the commission of a tort are jointly and severally liable therefor....”
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.