Miller v. McLaughlin’s Empirical Analysis
281 U.S. 261 · 1930
Citation profile
9 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1990 · most notably 55 Cal. App. 2d 56 - Santa Cruz Oil Corp. v. Milnor (1942), 149 F. Supp. 771 - Corsa v. Tawes (1957)
9 district · 25 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Lawton v. Steele · Geer v. State of Connecticut · Miller v. Schoene · Manchester v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · People of the State of New York Ex Rel August Silz v. Henry Hesterberg
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The claim under the 14th Amendment is also groundless. A state may regulate or prohibit fishing within its waters (citations omitted); and, for the proper enforcement of such statutes may prohibit the possession within its borders of the special instruments of violation, regardless of the time of acquisition or the protestations of lawful intentions on the part of a particular possessor, (citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““While the two states have not concurred in this legislation there is no conflict between them. Each has legislated only as to that part of the river which is within its own territorial limits.””
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.