Miller v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently August 2009 · most notably Republic National Bank of Dallas v. National Bankers Life Insurance Co. (1968), Dynegy Midstream Services, Ltd. Partnership v. Apache Corp. (2009)
36 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 Alexander v. Heidenheimer · Miller v. Wohlford
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`evidence of custom is admissible only to explain an ambiguous contract or to add to it an element not in contravention of its terms; but such evidence is never admissible to contradict the plain unambiguous covenants and agreements expressed in the contract itself.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If there was no express agreement as to when his lease would terminate, then the holding of that court can be sustained on the theory that the contract contemplated that the tenant should produce and gather a crop, and under the local custom the tenant could be allowed a reasonable time, under suitable weather conditions, after maturity of the crops in which to gather same.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Collins v. Thornton
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.