Henry Miller, in Error v. David Austen, William S. Wilmerding, and David Austen, Jr.’s Empirical Analysis
54 U.S. 218 · 1852
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1936 · most notably Dred Scott v. John F a Sandford (1856), Armstrong v. American Exch Nat Bank of Chicago (1890)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 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 Kimball & Kiniston v. Huntington · Patterson v. Poindexter
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1 hereby certify that Hugh SUiort has deposited in this bank, payable twelve months from the 1st of May, 1839, with 5% interest till due, fifteen hundred dollars, for the use of Henry 'Miller, and payable only to his order upon the return of this certificate.””
1 later decision 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.