Miles v. Caldwell’s Empirical Analysis
69 U.S. 35 · 1864
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 7 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2002 · most notably United States v. American Bell Telephone Co. (1888), Campbell v. Rankin (1878)
21 federal appellate · 7 district · 13 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 Cooke v. United States
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The second proposition in respect of which complainant asks relief— that the mortgage to Carswell and McClellan is fraudulent, made to hinder creditors—is one of the common grounds of equity jurisdiction. To relieve against fraud and set aside and cancel fraudulent conveyances are among the ordinary duties of courts of chancery. Courts of law, however, have-concurrent jurisdiction of questions of fraud when properly raised; and although they cannot cancel or set aside fraudulent instruments of writing; yet, when they are produced in evidence by a party claiming any right under them, their fraudulent character may, under proper circumstances, be shown, and their validity in the particular case contested.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kilham v. Wilson
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.