Miller v. Benson’s Empirical Analysis
68 F.3d 163 · 1995
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2014
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. · Rosenberger v. Rector & Visitors of University of Virginia · Lewis v. Continental Bank Corp. · Northeastern Florida Chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America v. City of Jacksonville · Diamond v. Charles
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whatever the outcome of the state case, this federal case . . . lacks any continuing significance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“play off one court system against another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.