United States v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
317 U.S. 369 · 1943
Citation profile
964 federal appellate · 128 district · 514 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,772 later decisions (98 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Blanchette v. Connecticut General Insurance Corporations (1974), Nixon v. Administrator of General Services (1977)
964 federal appellate · 128 district · 514 state decisions — followed in 41 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 Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Olson v. United States · Monongahela Navigation Co. v. United States · United States v. Chandler-Dunbar Water Power Co. · Bauman v. Ross
Cited together with Olson v. United States · United States ex rel. Tennessee Valley Authority v. Powelson · United States v. Cors · United States v. General Motors Corp. · Kimball Laundry Co. 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 2,772 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“what a willing buyer would pay in cash to a willing seller.”
121 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The payment is of estimated compensation; it is intended as a provisional and not a final settlement with the owner; it is a payment ‘on account of compensation and not a final settlement of the amount due. To hold otherwise would defeat the policy of the statute and work injustice; would be to encourage federal officials to underestimate the value of the property with the result that the Government would be saddled with interest on a larger sum from date of taking to final award, and would be to deny the owner the immediate use of cash approximating the value of his land.””
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We need not determine what is the local law, for the federal statutes upon which reliance is placed require only that, in condemnation proceedings, a federal court shall adopt the forms and methods of procedure afforded by the law of the State in which the court sits. They do not, and could not, affect questions of substantive right — such as measure of compensation — grounded upon the Constitution of the United States.” 1”
7 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.