Santilli v. Morelli’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Regan v. Cherry Corp. (1989), Jeffrey v. Platting Bd. of S. Kingstown (1968)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 24 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 Bragg v. Warwick Shoppers World, Inc. · Sherman v. Goloskie · Ferrone v. Rossi · Bentley v. Root · Waterbury Trust Co. v. G. L. D. Realty 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he fact that such owner has suffered little or no damage because of the offending structure, or that it was erected in good faith, or that the cost of its removal would be greatly disproportionate to the benefit accruing to the plaintiff from its removal, is not a bar to the granting of coercive relief.”
3 later decisions 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.