Miller v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2015 · most notably Roe v. Wade (1973), Wackwitz v. Roy (1992)
4 federal appellate · 34 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 McMullen v. Hoffman · Continental Wall Paper Company v. Louis Voight & Sons Company · Riggs v. . Palmer · Higgins v. McCrea · Street v. Consumers Mining Corp.
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled that, as a general rule, 'a party who consents to and participates in an immoral or illegal act cannot recover damages from other participants for the consequences of that act.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Trotter v. Okawa · Zysk v. Zysk“'consent or participation in an immoral or unlawful act by plaintiff precludes recovery for injuries sustained as a result of [such a tortious] act.'”
3 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.