Miller v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2015
1 district · 6 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 Langdon v. . Mayor, Etc., of City of N.Y. · Taylor v. Commonwealth · Groner v. Foster · Waverly Water-Front & Improvement Co. v. White · Whealton & Wisherd v. Doughty
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our conclusion is that comparatively few of the grants made by the London Company, the Crown, or the Commonwealth pass, under the common law rules [sic], the title to land lying between high and low water marks.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The common law of England was the common law of Colonial Virginia, and after the Revolution became the common law of the Commonwealth.”
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.