Howell v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
91 F. 129 · 1898
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2020
9 federal appellate ·
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 Chicago Co v. City of Chicago · Callaghan v. Myers · Belknap v. Schild · Cunningham v. Macon & Brunswick Railroad · Tindal v. Wesley
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any person desiring to publish the statutes of a state may use any copy of such statutes to be found in any printed book, whether such book be the property of the state or the property of an individual.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It thus appears that the supreme court, in Belknap v. Schild, proceeded in its judgment upon the ground that the caisson gate used at the navy yard of the United States under the supervision of the officers of the. government, had become its property, and that such use could not be enjoined because an injunction could not operate directly upon the government’s use of its own property, when it was not a party to the suit and could not, without its consent be sued. * * * It may be observed that if, before the caisson gate in question had been constructed, the patentee had applied for the relief necessary to prevent such construction, a different case would be presented to the supreme court””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f Miller had cut from Howell's books, delivered to him by the state, the General Laws of Michigan as therein printed, and the pages so cut out had been used when his compilation was printed--if this had been done and nothing more--there would have been no ground of complaint.”
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.