Miller v. Botwin’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably State Ex Rel. Stovall v. Meneley (2001), Varney Business Services, Inc. v. Pottroff (2002)
2 federal appellate · 16 district · 16 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 Mobil Oil Corp. v. Lightcap · Lightcap v. Mobil Oil Corporation · Kilner v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · Mark Twain Kansas City Bank v. Cates · Anderson v. Heartland Oil & Gas, Inc.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A claim becomes liquidated when both the amount due and the date on which it is due are fixed and certain, or when the same becomes definitely ascertainable by mathematical computation. The fact that a good faith controversy exists as to whether the party is liable for the money does not preclude a grant of prejudgment interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“may be allowable on unliquidated damages where necessary to arrive at full compensation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is a matter which lies within the sound discretion of the trial court.”
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.