Preston v. Whitney’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 1931
1 federal appellate · 21 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Whether it would be competent to provide in such a contract for the forfeiture of all the several installments which might have been paid prior to default, or whether such a provision would be treated as a penalty, according to the principles which distinguish penalties from stipulated damages, is a question upon which we express no opinion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thirlby v. Rainbow
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.