Preston v. Warden’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably Purnell v. State (2003), Busch v. State (1981)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 31 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
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] refusal to submit to lawful arrest and resistance to an officer of the law in the performance of his duties....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“resisting an officer in making arrest” and was convicted. On appeal, he contended that the offense of resisting arrest did not exist in Maryland and, alternatively, that the sentence imposed was illegal. This Court rejected both contentions and held:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Busch 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.