Preston v. Finley’s Empirical Analysis
72 F. 850 · 1896
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 1956
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Gibbons v. Ogden · Robbins v. Taxing District of Shelby Co Tennessee · State Railroad Tax Cases Taylor Collector et al. v. Secor et al. · Leisy v. Hardin · National Bank v. Insurance Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Inasmuch as the so-called demurrer was fatally defective in lacking the affidavit of defendant and certificate of counsel, required by rule 31, there was no error in disregarding it, and entering a decree pro confesso.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Newspapers are subjects of commerce, within the meaning of the provision in the Constitution of the United States relating to commerce between the states.””
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.