Preston v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
1 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 1985 · most notably 38 Cal. 3d 396 - Blanton v. Womancare, Inc. (1985), Burnaman v. Heaton (1951)
1 district · 41 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
Relationships
Relies on Derwort v. Loomer · Holmes v. Rogers · Davidson v. Rozier
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whatever presumptions the court or the adverse party might ordinarily be authorized to make, as to the authority of an attorney who proposes to compromise his client’s cause of action, all such presumptions must cease, when the client, before the transaction is consummated, notifies the court and his adversary, in the most formal manner, that his attorney has acted without authority, and that he repudiates the bargain. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“shall be filed with the clerk or entered upon the minutes of the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Turlok“by which an attorney may bind his client, in any step in the action,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Turlok
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.