Miller v. Lighter’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 2019
3 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 Lamont v. Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co. · Paradise v. Ridenour
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . Generally where the aggrieved party is not a named party to the action he nevertheless has a substantial interest adverse to the judgment either directly or by privity created by succeeding to the rights of the person against whom the judgment was rendered.” Id. at 403, 124 N.W. 2d at 461 (emphasis added).”
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.