Miles v. Hines’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 1966 · most notably Lambert v. State (1922), Mobile City Lines, Inc. v. Alexander (1947)
27 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 Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Foshee · Armstrong v. Montgomery Street Railway Co. · Birmingham Southern R. Co. v. Harrison · L. & N. R. R. v. Calvert · Ensley Railway Co. v. Chewning
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The engineer . . . must blow the whistle or ring the bell at least one-fourth of a mile before reaching any public road crossing . . . and continue to blow the whistle or ring the bell at short intervals, until it has passed such crossing . . .”
1 later decision 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.