Miller v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1954
4 federal appellate · 4 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 Cheever v. Wilson · Ditson v. Ditson · Dormitzer v. German Savings & Loan Society · McFarlane v. McFarlane · Jenness v. Jenness
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In a suit for the dissolution of the marriage contract, the plaintiff therein must be an inhabitant of the state at the commencement of the suit, and for one year prior thereto; which residence shall be sufficient to give the court jurisdiction, without regard to the place where the marriage was solemnized or the cause of suit arose.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Noble v. Noble““We think the rule is that the wife’s residence is that of her husband, save in exceptional cases,” etc.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Noble v. Noble““ In determining the residence or permanent habitation of the plaintiff,” etc.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Noble v. Noble
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.