Miller v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
615 F.2d 1037 · 1980
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Holmberg v. Armbrecht · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Johnson v. Avery · Order of Railroad Telegraphers v. Railway Express 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even though Texas would honor the toll for prisoners in its own courts, there is no valid reason for honoring it in a federal court which at all pertinent times had been open to the prisoner.”
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.