Miller v. Weaver’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
1 district · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Martinez v. Media-Paymaster Plus/Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (2007), State v. Barrett (2005)
1 district · 64 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 State v. Thomas · St. Benedict's Development Co. v. St. Benedict's Hospital · Jenkins v. Swan · Hall v. Utah State Department of Corrections · Loffredo v. Holt
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We read the plain language of the statute as a whole, and interpret its provisions in harmony with other statutes in the same chapter and related chapters.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage“'the cardinal rule that the general purpose, intent or purport of the whole act shall control, and that all the parts be interpreted as subsidiary and harmonious to its manifest object.?”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) a justiciable controversy, (2) parties whose interests are adverse, (8) a legally protectible interest residing with the party seeking relief, and (4) issues ripe for determination.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.