Miller v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably Peyton v. Williams (1965), Vansant and Gusler, Inc. v. Washington (1993)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 50 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 Commonwealth v. Dodson · 120 W. Va. 774 - Newhart v. Pennybacker · Smith v. Bryan · Hunton v. Commonwealth · Tate v. Ogg
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“So, also, the practical construction given to a statute by public officials, and acted upon by the people, is not only to be considered, but, in cases of doubt, will be regarded as decisive. * * * The Legislature is presumed to be cognizant of such construction, and, when long continued, in the absence of legislation evincing a dissent, the courts will adopt that construction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where a statute has been construed by the courts, and is then re-enacted by the legislature, the construction given to it is presumed to be sanctioned by the legislature, and thenceforth becomes obligatory upon the courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where a particular construction of a statute will result in an absurdity, some other reasonable construction which will not produce the absurdity will be found.”
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.