Greer v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
794 federal appellate · 71 district · 442 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,107 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Brecht v. Abrahamson (1993), Teague v. Lane (1989)
794 federal appellate · 71 district · 442 state decisions — followed in 36 states
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
reviewedUnited States of America Ex Rel. Charles "Chuck" Miller v. James Greer, Warden, Menard Correctional Center (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Bruton v. United States · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs
Cited together with Doyle v. Ohio · Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Brecht v. Abrahamson
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 2,107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We normally presume that a jury will follow an instruction to disregard inadmissible evidence inadvertently presented to it, unless there is an 'overwhelming probability' that the jury will be unable to follow the court's instructions.”
41 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“of sufficient significance to result in the denial of the defendant's right to a fair trial.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Angulo v. Bj Bunnell · States v. L“[t]he fact of Miller's postarrest silence was not submitted to the jury as evidence from which it was allowed to draw any permissible inference, and thus no Doyle violation occurred in this case.”
11 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.