Miller v. Maxwell’s Empirical Analysis
1836
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably Corr v. . Sun Printing Publishing Assn. (1904), J.A. R.A. Reid v. Prov. Journal Co. (1897)
3 federal appellate · 21 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.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the libel designates the plaintiff in such a way as to let those who knew [the plaintiff] understand that [s]he was the person meant. It is not necessary that all the world should understand the libel.' " Fetler v. Houghton Mifflin Co., 364 F.2d 650 , 651 (2d Cir.1966) (quoting Miller v. Maxwell, 16 Wend. 9, 18 (N.Y.Sup.Ct.1836)). "The question is not so much who was aimed at, as who was hit.”
1 later decision 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.