Milligan v. Khodra’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 48 U.S.C. § 1613A
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Catlin v. United States · Behrens v. Pelletier · Digital Equipment Corp. v. Desktop Direct, Inc. · Midland Asphalt Corp. v. United States
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A conveyance of lands, or of any estate or interest therein, may be made by deed, signed by the person from whom the estate or interest is intended to pass, being of lawful age, or by his lawful agent or attorney and acknowledged or proved, and recorded as directed in this title, without any other act or ceremony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barnes v. Weber“[d]eeds executed within the Virgin Islands of lands or any interest in lands therein shall be executed in the presence of two witnesses, who shall subscribe their names to the same as such; and the persons executing such deeds may acknowledge the execution thereof as provided in chapter 5 of this title.”
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.