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← 373 SO2D 1004 - Miller v. State

Miller v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1979

Citation profile

25
cited by 25 later decisions
10
states following
October 2017
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 23 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably State v. Moore (2000), Little v. State (1984)

1 federal appellate · 23 state decisions — followed in 10 states

9019791980199020002010decided

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 Delaware v. Prouse · Almeida-Sanchez v. United States · Fernandez v. United States · Hobson v. United States · United States v. Borkowski

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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[a]n automobile may be searched, given the proper circumstances, without warrant either as an incident to a valid arrest or because there is probable cause that the vehicle itself may be evidence of crime or contain something that offends against the law.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Graves v. State · 681 So. 2d 497 - Townsend v. State
  2. “the Newton officers were not making a random or spot check of drivers, but had set up a roadblock and were checking all drivers... from the two factories in the vicinity, after having received complaints that employees at those facilities were not licensed to drive automobiles.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 758 So. 2d 1032 - Boyd v. State
  3. “The sense of smell is no less important or reliable than the sense of sight.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 681 So. 2d 497 - Townsend v. State

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.