State ex rel. Miles v. Ellison’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 1974
15 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 Bowers v. Smith · Cain v. Garvey · Gaston v. Lamkin · Bierce v. Pierce · Hoover v. Missouri Pacific Railway 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““"We have no original appellate jurisdiction of this cause and our review is limited to the question of whether the Court of Appeals in holding as it did went contrary to the last previous rulings of this court. While this court has recently done considerable writing and its members expressed divergent views as to what constitutes our record in cases of this class, we all yield assent to the one proposition that the courts of appeals are courts of last resort, and when acting within their jurisdiction and not in violation of our decisions, can decide cases as their judgment dictates, and in so doing can, without interference on our part, commit error and decide incorrectly, just as we can.””
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.