Commonwealth v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 8 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Rivera v. Double A Transportation, Inc. (1999), State v. Payne (1997)
5 federal appellate · 8 district · 44 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
Relationships
Relies on Morissette v. United States · Dennis v. United States · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Smith v. People of the State of California · Williams v. State of North Carolina
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whoever, verbally or by a written or printed communication, maliciously threatens to accuse another of a crime or offence, or by a verbal or written or printed communication maliciously threatens an injury to the person or property of another, or any police officer or person having the powers of a police officer, or any officer, or employee of any licensing authority who verbally or by written or printed communication maliciously and unlawfully uses or threatens to use against another the power or authority vested in him, with intent thereby to extort money or any pecuniary advantage, or with intent to compel any person to do any act against his will ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the victim would have suffered a blow to her reputation of such magnitude as to cause her severe mental anguish which would constitute injury to the person. . . . Simply stated, an injury to a person's reputation is an injury to the person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Duan v. State“... that the emphasis in the crime of extortion is on the wrongful use of fear to compel the victim to surrender something of value to the extortionist ... Simply stated, an injury to a person’s reputation is an injury to the person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.