Miller v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1939
12 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 Haven v. Missouri Railroad · Young v. Great Northern Railway Co.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By finding for the plaintiff the jury determined the issue in his favor, and it only remained to award reasonable compensation. This is not a case for nominal damages, such as are allowed for the breach of a legal duty which has. caused no material loss. Such an award is permissible in a proper case to vindicate a right where damages are possible but have not been suffered.” (p. 398.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sundgren v. Stevens
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.