Miller v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 2017
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 In re Tinari · Crowell v. City of Philadelphia · Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Goldfein · Finn v. City of Philadelphia · Gall v. Allegheny County Health Department
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A dangerous condition of trees, traffic signs, lights or other traffic controls, street lights or street lighting system under the care, custody and control of the local agency except that the claimant to recover must establish that the dangerous condition created a reasonably foreseeable risk of the kind of injury which was incurred and that the local agency had actual notice or could reasonably be charged with notice under the circumstances of the dangerous condition at a sufficient-time prior to the event to have taken measures to protect against the dangerous condition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the common thread running throughout these exceptions is that liability depends first on the strictly legal determination that the injury was caused by a condition of the property, itself, which has its origin or source in the property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“not only to the water pipes but also to the strip of land that the [a]uthority disturbed to repair its water pipe.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.