Preston v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2012
10 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 Sulphur Mines Co. v. Thompson's Heirs · Wilson v. Wall · Huntt v. Townshend ex rel. Townshend
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the instrument creating the trust has given directions concerning the mode of sale, they must be substantially pursued. Any direction regarding the notice of sale is material, and the trustee is not at liberty to disobey it. His sale made without complying with it will, in most jurisdictions, be regarded as either absolutely void or as liable to be vacated upon complaint of any person interested in the execution of the trust.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Eubanks v. . Becton
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.