Miller v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably Borchardt v. State (2001), Timberlake v. State (1997)
4 federal appellate · 36 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 United States v. Wade · Furman v. Georgia · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Penry v. Lynaugh
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Law enforcement officers ... must be dedicated to making the criminal trial a procedure for the ascertainment of the true facts”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“in many instances has little, if any, relation to the search for truth.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“"Law enforcement officers have the obligation to convict the guilty and to make sure they do not convict the innocent." That’s my duty. "They must be dedicated to make a criminal trial, a procedure of the ascertainment of the true facts surrounding the commission of the crime. To this extent, our so-called adversary system is not adversary at all, nor should it be.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. Anderson
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.