Preston v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2024
8 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 State v. Baurens · State v. Fick · State v. Smith · In re Roberson · State ex rel. Delevan v. Justus
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No inflexible rule can be laid down in cases of this kind; each must be decided on its own merits. The statute was intended for a wise purpose, but is capable of abuse and being made an instrument of intolerable oppression. It is elementary that penal statutes are inelastic and must be strictly construed; they are never extended by implication.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Weber v. State
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.