Miller v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 2008 · most notably Davis v. Davis (1977), Hild v. Hild (2001)
31 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 Carter v. Carter · Buckner v. Buckner · Simmont v. Simmont · Collins v. Collinss · Hoffhines v. Hoffhines
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We must look to the future welfare of this infant. In making our decision we should not gamble about that future. We can only judge the future by the past.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cornwell v. Cornwell
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.