State v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1947
2 district · 13 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 Intoxicating-Liquor Cases · Mitchell v. Commonwealth · Bertrand v. State · State v. Ross · Holcomb v. People
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the liquor be such that the distinctive character and effect of intoxicating liquor be absent, it is outside the statute; if the distinctive character and effect of intoxicating liquor be present, it is within the statute. The fact is to be determined by the jury, or by the court when sitting as a trier of the facts.” (p. 1004.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Wilson““All liquors mentioned in section one of this act, and all other liquors or mixtures thereof, by whatever name called, that will produce intoxication, shall be considered and held to be intoxicating liquors within the meaning! of this act.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Liquors belonging to the first class there described, such as whisky, brandy, gin, wine, beer, and the like, are still to be construed to be intoxicating.” (p. 1004.)”
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.