Miller v. Stout’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 2019
5 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 45th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on State v. Texas Pet Foods, Inc. · Hernandez v. Light Pub. Co. · Mims Bros. v. N. A. James, Inc. · Cocke v. Southland Life Ins. Co. · Mims Bros. v. N. A. James, Inc.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Only ultimate issues of fact are to be submitted to a jury.... Such proceedings as those involving determination of motions for sanctions because of failure to respond to discovery requests ... often involve resolution [by a judge] of questions of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Trevino v. Ortega“Litigation would be interminably prolonged if all issues of fact which might arise in connection with preliminary motions and motions not involving the merits must, at the demand of a party, be determined by a jury.”
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.