Miller v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2005 · most notably State v. Copeland (1996), Commonwealth v. Drayton (1982)
3 federal appellate · 18 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 Turner v. Louisiana · Little v. George Feed & Supply Co.
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.
“[ A]n expert witness’ view as to probabilities is often helpful in the determination of questions involving matters of science or technical or skilled knowledge. ... It is necessary, however, that the facts upon which the expert bases his opinion or conclusions permit reasonably accurate conclusions as distinguished from mere guess or conjecture.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]dmission of the unsubstantial, speculative testimony on probabilities was clearly erroneous.”
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.