Mills v. Wagner’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
4 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Davis-Wood Lumber Co. v. Ladner (1951), Thurman v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. (1926)
4 district · 28 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 Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. v. Hunt · Illinois Central Railroad v. Sanford
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[to] include only agents vested with some general authority and discretion, and not to extend to mere employees having no independent powers.”
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.