Miller v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Burford v. Sun Oil Co. · Brillhart v. Excess Insurance Co. of America · Zwickler v. Koota · Provident Tradesmens Bank & Trust Co. v. Patterson · Kline v. Burke Construction Co.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although each action may be labeled as in personam and although neither court took possession of the land, we have the question of whether the state court has, or in order to grant the relief requested must have, control over the same res which the federal court would have to control in order to grant the relief sought from it. If this is the case, the rationale underlying the rule would require dismissal of the federal action. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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