Turner v. Coppola’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2002
14 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.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In any event, plaintiff may not go beyond the property line to cut or destroy part or all of a tree on the adjoining land unless the tree becomes a private nuisance as to an abutting owner, due to its rotted and diseased condition. Childers v. New York Power & Light Corp., 275 App.Div. 133 , 89 N.Y.S.2d 11 [1949]. Under the maxim “de minimus non cu-rat lex”, we further believe that the alleged damages are not substantial enough to seriously interfere with the use and enjoyment of the plaintiff’s premises * * *. Clashing land uses require an examination of the character of the neighborhood as well as the character of the defendants’ and plaintiff’s alleged harms and equities within a balancing framework.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Garcia v. Sanchez
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.