Miller v. Basbas’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2018
14 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 Eastern Marine Construction Corp. v. First Southern Leasing, Ltd. · Carlucci v. Piper Aircraft Corp. · Carbur's, Inc. v. a & S Office Concepts, Inc. · Dubois v. Dubois · Durocher's Ice Cream, Inc. v. Peirce Construction Co.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“control over the breadth and scope of pre-trial discovery is left to the sound discretion of the trial judge”
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.