Miller v. Ammon’s Empirical Analysis
145 U.S. 421 · 1892
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 6 district · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 172 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2017 · most notably Olmstead v. United States (1928), Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co. (1902)
28 federal appellate · 6 district · 80 state decisions — followed in 22 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 Burgess v. Seligman · Carroll County v. Smith · Harris v. Runnels · Chicago City v. Robbins
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 172 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule of law is that a contract made in violation of a statute 3s, void; and that, when a plaintiff cannot establish his cause of action without relying upon an illegal contract, he cannot recover.””
6 later decisions 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.