State v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2005
16 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.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Legislature intended to use the word “sell” in its broad sense, so as to include a disposition for any consideration. We cannot assume that the lawmakers intended to give the word a meaning which would defeat the purpose of the act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Harris
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.