Preuss v. Berg’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 1999
15 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 In re the Estate of Gorkow · Hunt v. Phillips · In re the Estate of Statler · Rathjens v. Merrill · Jasinto v. Hamblen
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To measure the present law we must consider the old law, for a presumption carries in all changes in statute law that the legislature had in mind a mischief (a mischief of various rules, 40 Cyc. 1362), and a remedy, and we must attribute a motive for the striking out of the arbitrary provisions of the old law and a substitution of a discretionary power to award costs and attorney’s fees unhampered by any restrictions within the realm of reasonable discretion.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““If the probate be revoked or the will annulled, assessment of costs shall be in the discretion of the court.””
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.