Miree v. County Georgia Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
302 federal appellate · 490 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,752 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2021 · most notably Papasan v. Allain (1986), Federal Deposit Insurance v. Meyer (1994)
302 federal appellate · 490 district · 17 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedMiree v. United States (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act)
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States · Lawn v. United States · United States v. Seckinger
Cited together with Conley v. Gibson · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States · Erie Co v. Tompkins · Hishon v. King & Spalding
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 1,752 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“significant conflict between some federal policy or interest and the use of state law in the premises”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the operations of the United States in connection with FAA grants such as these . . . would [not] be burdened”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“direct effect upon the United States or its Treasury,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.