Miller v. Shay’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1943
2 federal appellate · 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 Pratt v. White
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The plaintiff had clearly the right to use his account book to refresh and aid his memory. The fact that the book went to the jury could not prejudice the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bates v. Preble
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.