Presby v. . Benjamin’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently December 1993 · most notably Connolly v. Medalie (1932), United States v. Holland (1985)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 40 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 Riggs v. . Pursell · Kerrains v. . People of the State of N.Y. · Roosevelt v. . Hopkins · Cheever v. Smith
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`They are construed with the utmost jealousy, and very easy modes have always been countenanced for defeating them.'”
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.