Milner v. Meek’s Empirical Analysis
95 U.S. 252 · 1877
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1926 · most notably Winters v. United States (1908), Hill v. Chicago & Evanston Railroad (1891)
16 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 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 Stickney v. Wilt · William Dromgoole v. The Farmers' and Merchants' Bank of Mississippi
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The pleading filed by the assignee was appropriate in form for a petition in the bankruptcy suit, hut it was equally good in substance as a bill in equity. It contained a complete statement of a cause of action cognizable in equity and a sufficient prayer for relief. There was no formal prayer Cor a subpoena, but process was issued and served. All the parties interested appeared, and presented their respective claims by answers, or answers and cross-petitions, with appropriate prayers for relief.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Steuer · Jones v. Blair
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.