Miller v. Aderhold’s Empirical Analysis
288 U.S. 206 · 1933
Citation profile
137 federal appellate · 9 district · 91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 304 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2019 · most notably Pollard v. United States (1957), Berman v. United States (1937)
137 federal appellate · 9 district · 91 state decisions — followed in 24 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedMiller v. Aderhold (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Ex parte United States · In re Bonner · State v. Vaughan · Bryant v. United States
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 304 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a criminal case final judgment means sentence; and a void order purporting permanently to suspend sentence is neither final nor a valid judgment.”
5 later decisions 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.