Miller v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
462 F.3d 312 · 2006
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 22 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Constitution Party v. Aichele (2014), Cooksey v. Futrell (2013)
28 federal appellate · 22 district ·
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 Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Simon v. Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization · Babbitt v. United Farm Workers National Union · Blanchette v. Connecticut General Insurance Corporations
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we consider '(1) the fitness of the issues for judicial decision and (2) the hardship to the parties of withholding court consideration.'”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“A case is fit for judicial decision when the issues are purely legal and when the action in controversy is final and not dependent on future uncertainties.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“A case is fit for judicial decision where the issues to be considered are purely legal ones and where the agency rule or action giving rise to the controversy is final and not dependent upon future uncertainties or intervening agency rulings. The hardship prong is measured by the immediacy of the threat and the burden imposed on the petitioner.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.