State v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 1962 · most notably People v. Rogers (1912), State v. Doris (1908)
35 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 Baxter v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. · People v. Rozelle · Blair v. Inhabitants of Pelham · State v. Saunders · State v. Bartmess
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * But unless they are necessary in some matter of substance, or instructive to establish material facts or conditions, they are not admissible, especially when they are of such a character as to arouse sympathy or indignation, or to divert the minds of the jury to improper or irrelevant considerations # * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Godvig v. Lopez
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.