Milliken v. Hatter’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 1957
17 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 Brumleve v. Cronan · Ward v. Howard · City of Covington v. Geyler · Kash v. Strong · Smith v. Berry
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have already seen that the bond must be executed before the circuit clerk. The law is that if a bond (including an appeal bond) is required to be executed before a particular officer, or to' be approved by him, it must be so executed or it will be no bond at all, nor will it be allowed to accomplish the purpose for which it was executed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Philips v. Robinson
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.