Prior v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1999 · most notably Martin v. City of Struthers (1943), Breard v. City of Alexandria La (1951)
54 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon · Emert v. State of Missouri · Al Williams v. State of Arkansas · Lawrence v. Kaul Lumber Co. · Allen v. Allen
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.
“which either annoys, injures or endangers the comfort, health, repose or safety of the citizen, or which unlawfully interferes with or tends to obstruct, or in any way render unsafe and insecure other persons in life or in the use of their property”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We think like practices have become so general and common as to be of judicial knowledge, and that the frequent ringing of doorbells of private residences by itinerant vendors and solicitors is in fact a nuisance to the occupants of homes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It has been held that a license may be implied to enter the house of another, at usual and reasonable hours, and in a customary manner for any of the common purposes of life.”
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.