Preisler v. Doherty’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently February 2000 · most notably Preisler v. Doherty (1955), Magenheim v. Board of Education of the School District of Riverview Gardens (1961)
49 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 Ex Rel. Chilcutt v. Thatch · State ex rel. Barrett v. Hitchcock · Jones v. Freeman · Moore v. Smith · Personal Finance Co. v. Day
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A question is moot when the question presented for decision seeks a judgment upon some matter which if judgment were rendered could not have any practical effect upon any then existing controversy.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bresnahan v. Bass““It is the primary rights of citizens that are violated by invalid statutes, which the court, in a proper case, may protect by injunction or other process.” Preisler, 265 S.W.2d at 409 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.