Preston v. Preston’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 1974
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 Prowell v. Wilson · Catts v. Phillips · Anders Bros. v. Latimer · Stewart v. Burgin
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The learned circuit judge seems to have relied on the principle that a court takes judicial knowledge of its own records. That is true for a limited purpose only. This principle does not apply nor does it justify the Court in supplying material evidence in the case to be decided. If such evidence is or can be found in the records of the court, it must be offered by the parties and in equity cases noted as required by Equity Rule 57, Code of 1940, Title 7 Appendix, p. 1095. Catts v. Phillips, 217 Ala. 488 , 117 So. 34 ; Anders et al. v. Latimer et al., 198 Ala. 573 , 73 So. 925 . “For the error noted, the decree of the circuit court is reversed and the cause is remanded.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sylvest v. Stowers
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.