Padilla v. Lawrence’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
6 district · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably Continental Potash, Inc. v. Freeport-McMoran, Inc. (1993), Cooper v. Chevron U.S.A., Inc. (2002)
6 district · 56 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 32 Cal. 3d 229 - Wilson v. Interlake Steel Co. · 369 So. 2d 523 - Borland v. Sanders Lead Co., Inc. · MARTIN ET UX v. Reynolds Metals Co. · Boomer v. Atlantic Cement Co. · Samedan Oil Corp. v. Neeld
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A trespass is a direct infringement of another’s right of possession. Where there is no physical invasion of property, as with intangible intrusions such as noise and odor, the cause of action is for nuisance rather than for trespass.... The entrance onto property of blowing particulate matter also is not actionable as trespass in the absence of a finding that the matter settled upon and damaged plaintiffs’ property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“affects the rights of citizens as part of the public and must affect a considerable number of people or an entire community or neighborhood.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A private nuisance has been defined as a non-trespassory invasion of another's interest in the private use and enjoyment of land.”
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.