Miller v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Amalgamated Casualty Insurance v. Helms (1965), Givner v. State (1956)
39 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 Interstate Commerce Commission v. Brimson · Federal Trade Commission v. American Tobacco Co. · Sugarman v. State · Blum v. State · Franklin v. State
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A stream can rise no higher than its source, nor can one grant what he has not, nor grant to others rights in the property of a stranger which he does not himself possess.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Devlin v. Bowden“that part, and only that part, of the building or premises in which alcoholic beverages are sold.”
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.