Miller v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2020 · most notably Spencer v. State of Texas a Bell (1967), Cary v. State (1976)
57 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 Irvin v. Dowd · Palko v. State of Connecticut · Michelson v. United States · Fay v. People of State of New York Bove · Alford v. State
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.
““The defendants did not testify in this case. Over their objections and exceptions, the court instructed the jury that it was the privilege of the defendants to testify in their own behalf or to decline to so testify. In his argument to the jury, the prosecuting attorney specifically called this instruction to the attention of the jury, repeated it, and said: ‘You are instructed this is a privilege to them to either testify or not to testify. That is what the court says in that instruction.’ Obviously, by arguing this instruction to the jury in that manner, attention has been called to the fact that defendants had not taken the stand in their own behalf. This was error. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. State““We reach the conclusion that under the facts of this case the reading to the jury, at the commencement of Lane’s trial, of that portion of the indictments relating to his prior convictions destroyed the impartiality of the jury and denied him due process of law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“whether the action of the trial court in permitting the previous convictions to be called to the attention of the jury deprived the defendants of a fair trial within the meaning of the U.S. Constitution, Amendments 5, 6, and 14.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Saul v. State
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.