Miller v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2024
19 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.
Relationships
Relies on Kendall v. Stokes · Ring v. Spina · Baird v. United States · Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Nester · Esquire, Inc. v. Varga Enterprises, Inc.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If, on a motion asserting the defense numbered (6) to dismiss for failure of the pleading to state a claim upon which relief can be granted, matters outside the pleading are presented to and not excluded by the court, the motion shall be treated as one for summary judgment and disposed of as provided in Rule 56, and all parties shall be given reasonable opportunity to present all material made pertinent to such a motion by Rule 56.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[G]ranting the Rule 12(b)(6) motion would be improper if the [plaintiff's] complaint states a claim upon which some relief may be granted, although the relief demanded may not be the kind to which the party is in fact entitled to obtain.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“was not dealing with a motion to dismiss which could be treated as a motion for summary judgment, because it did not have before it any depositions, affidavits, admissions or other matters . . [footnote omitted]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martin v. Mears
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.