Miller United States v. Nicholls’s Empirical Analysis
17 U.S. 311 · 1819
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1982 · most notably Cohens v. Virginia (1821), Samuel Worcester v. The State of Georgia (1832)
4 federal appellate · 5 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 Martin Fairfax v. Hunter's · Inglee v. Coolidge
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“had the fact of insolvency appeared upon ] the record; that would have enabled *this court to revise the judgment of the supreme court of Pennsylvania.”
2 later decisions 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.