Miller v. The State’s Empirical Analysis
82 U.S. 478 · 1872
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably Sinking-Fund Cases v. United States Central Pacific Railroad Company (1879), Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Laramie Stock Yards Company (1913)
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 33 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 Sherman v. Smith · The John Griffin · Ward v. Van Bokkelen
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Undoubtedly, the powers and privileges of the railroad company in this case are the same as they would have been if the company had been incorporated by a special act; and it may be conceded that the charter, when the articles of association were filed in the office of the secretary of the state, became an executed contract,” etc.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Whilst the Legislature may reserve the right to revoke or change its own grant of charter rights, it cannot reserve a right to invalidate contracts between third parties, as that would enable it to reserve the right to impair the validity of all contracts, and thus evade the inhibition of the Constitution of the United States.””
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.