In all, Miller wrote twice the number of opinions as any of his colleagues on the Court, leading future Chief Justice William Rehnquist to describe him as ``very likely the dominant figure'' on the Court in his time. When Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase died in 1873, attorneys and law journals across the country lobbied for Miller to be appointed to succeed him, but President Ulysses Grant was determined to appoint an outsider.
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