Miller v. Stiff’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 1976 · most notably In Re the Estate of Gardinier (1963), In Re Edmundson (1968)
26 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 Wyman v. United States · Robinson v. Carroll · Gordon v. Shea · In Re the Estate of Roche · Rogers v. Edwards
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Our statute by its most literal reading does not seem to make the existence of assets, in the sense urged by the defendant, a jurisdictional requirement under the present circumstances; but if assets are required under reasonable construction, then an asset does exist in this state."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““* * * All that is nécéssary f'or the appointment is the mere allegation of ' a debtor in the state, for the truth of the allegátion can only be tried when thfe' alleged debtor, is a party. . 3’ Beale,'¡Conflict of Laws, § 467.3. The same rule is applied to any demand or right of claim. Gordon v. Shea, 1938, 300 Mass. 95 , 14 N.E.2d 105 , and authorities therein cited,” (Emphasis added.) ,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ * * * If the deceased had no mansion, house or place of abode, and was not possessed of lands, letters may be granted in the county in which he died or where the greater part of his estate may be; * * * ”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kimbell v. Smith
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.