Miller v. Wiggins’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
2 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 1975 · most notably Succession of Chavis (1947), Succession of Marinoni (1935)
2 district · 31 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 Smith v. Smith · Patton v. Cities of Philadelphia & New Orleans · Succession of Navarro · Succession of Taylor · Abston v. Abston
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Art. 117. (119). Putative Marriages: The marriage which has been declared null produces nevertheless its civil effects as it relates to the parties and their children, if it has been contracted in good faith.” “Art. 118. (120). Id. If only one of the, parties acted in good faith, the marriage produces its civil effects only in his or her favor and in favor of the children bom from the marriage.””
2 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.