Miller v. . Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1981 · most notably Blythe v. Ayres (1892), Olmsted v. Olmsted (1910)
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 29 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Ross v. Ross · Van Voorhis v. . Brintnall · Lingen v. Lingen · Scott v. Key · Smith v. Kelly's Heirs
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would render the right of inheritance, sanctioned by the law of the State where he resided, one of great uncertainty and fluctuation, and in many cases it would operate so as to produce great injustice.”
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.