Miller v. Wichita Gas Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Price v. Sinnott (1969), Hendrix v. Phillips Petroleum Co. (1969)
26 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Atkinson ex rel. Atkinson v. Wichita Gas Co. · Durkin v. Kansas City Public Service Co. · Shrout v. Bird
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘“A gas company is guilty of negligence if a leak in a customer’s pipes and appliances causes injury to persons or property, provided the company has sufficient notice of such leak or leaks, and having such notice (a) negligently inspects or negligently repairs; (6) agrees and assumes to inspect and repair, and then fails to do so; (c) refuses to inspect and repair, knowing a dangerous condition exists, and with such knowledge fails to shut off its gas until the owner can have his pipes and appliances properly repaired.’ (Italics ours.)” (p. 732.)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When the attention of the gas company was called to circumstances that indicated that the appliances were not burning the gas sufficiently to prevent the creation of carbon monoxide fumes, it was the duty of the company to call the dangerous condition of the appliances to the attention of the customers, ..., advise him of the consequences that might follow the condition discovered, and to advise him that the gas would be shut off until he repaired the appliances.”
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.