Butler v. Bruno’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Pendergrast v. Aiken (1977), Heins Implement Co. v. Missouri Highway & Transportation Commission (1993)
26 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 Rodrigues v. State · 64 Cal. 2d 396 - Keys v. Romley · Armstrong v. Francis Corp. · 66 Wis. 2d 1 - State v. Deetz · Enderson v. Kelehan
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In embracing the principle of reasonable use, we are aware of those whose support of either of the two property-based rules is based on their conviction that adherence to either rule gives to a concerned landowner the advantage of predictability. * * * With the numerous judicial exceptions and modifications that have been appended through the years to the two original concepts, we fail to see how the modern versions of either afford more predictability than the rule of reasonable use. However, even if we were to assume that each did possess a higher predictability factor, a desire for certainty of liability should not and must not serve as a judicial pardon for the unreasonable conduct which has been manifested by any landowner in our modern society.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Argyelan v. Haviland“the invasion of one's property by surface waters can be a nuisance, no different from an invasion by noise, noxious vapors, or the like”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Argyelan v. Haviland
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.