Miner v. Atlass’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
132 federal appellate · 25 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 269 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2016 · most notably Chambers v. Nasco, Inc. (1991), Goldlawr, Inc. v. Heiman (1962)
132 federal appellate · 25 district · 6 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedAtlass v. Miner (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1781 · 28 U.S.C. § 2071 · 28 U.S.C. § 2072 · 28 U.S.C. § 2073 · 28 U.S.C. § 2074 · 28 U.S.C. § 331
Relies on Hickman v. Taylor · Sibbach v. Wilson & Co. · Fisk · William Cary and Samuel Cary v. Edward Curtis
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 269 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall be introduced only after mature consideration of informed opinion from all relevant quarters, with all the opportunities for comprehensive and integrated treatment which such consideration affords.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to regulate their practice in such a manner as they deem most expedient for the due administration of justice, provided the same are not inconsistent with these rules.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Miner held that this omission 'must be taken as an advertent declination of the opportunity to institute the discovery-deposition procedure of Civil Rule 26(a) throughout courts of admiralty.'”
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.