Miller v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
294 U.S. 435 · 1935
Citation profile
282 federal appellate · 29 district · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 496 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2015 · most notably Bowen v. Georgetown University Hospital (1988), United States v. Atkinson (1936)
282 federal appellate · 29 district · 60 state decisions — followed in 18 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. United States (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Grimaud · Lumbra v. United States · Chew Heong v. United States · Morrill v. Jones
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 496 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is invalid because not within the authority conferred by the statute upon the Director (or his successor, the Administrator) to make regulations to carry out the purposes of the act. It is not, in the sense of the statute, a regulation at all, but legislation. * * * The only authority conferred, or which could be conferred, by the statute is to make regulations to carry out the purposes of the act — not to amend it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to make such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the provisions of the act, as may be necessary or appropriate to carry out its purposes.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] statute cannot be construed to operate retrospectively unless the legislative intention to that effect unequivocally appears”
2 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.