Miller v. Higgins’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably St. Louis Union Trust Co. v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc. (1977), Osterberger v. Hites Construction Co. (1980)
6 federal appellate · 25 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 Judd v. Walker · Jones v. Arnold · Metropolitan Paving Co. v. Brown-Crummer Investment Co. · Salmon Ex Rel. Salmon v. Brookshire · Finke v. Boyer
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defrauded party may recover special damages necessarily incurred solely by reason of the fraud. Such expenditures may properly include the professional aid of an attorney to mitigate damages and avoid future losses”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Silence or non-disclosure of a material fact, when used as an inducement to another, can be an act of fraud.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] defrauded party may recover special damages necessarily incurred solely by reason of the fraud.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Usery Gourley
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.