Millman v. Paige’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 2020
24 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 Loda v. H. K. Sargeant & Associates, Inc. · Crozier v. Zaboori · Union Trust Co. v. Stamford Trust Co. · Century Indemnity Co. v. Kofsky · Kerite Co. v. Alpha Employment Agency, Inc.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whenever any person has, or is alleged to have, any money or other property in his possession which is claimed by two or more persons, either he, or any of the persons claiming the same, may bring a complaint in equity, in the nature of a bill of interpleader, to any court which by law has equitable jurisdiction of the parties and amount in controversy, making all persons parties who claim to be entitled to or interested in such money or other property. Such court shall hear and determine all questions which may arise in the case, may tax costs at its discretion and, under the rules applicable to an action of interpleader, may allow to one or more of the parties a reasonable sum or sums for counsel fees and disbursements, payable out of such fund or property; but no such allowance shall be made unless it has been claimed by the party in his complaint or answer.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The classic interpleader action existing in equity, prior to the enactment of the statute, was brought by a disinterested stakeholder to establish the undivided ownership of money or property claimed by two or more entities or individuals. . . . After the passage of the forerunner to § 52-484 in 1893, the rule that an interpleader action be maintained only by a stakeholder with no interest in the disposition of the fund was relaxed. [and] actions in the nature of interpleader included those involving plaintiffs as possessors of property with an interest in the property that was less than the total, and courts were permitted in a single action to determine all the questions that might arise among those interested in as well as entitled to the property.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he purpose of an interpleader action is to bring all adverse claimants together in a single action for an adjudication of all matters in controversy related to a particular fund to which the adverse claimants seek entitlement.”
2 later decisions 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.