Jack v. Torrant’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
1 district · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Keeney v. Town of Old Saybrook (1996), Pepe v. City of New Britain (1987)
1 district · 75 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 Strain v. Mims · Nailor v. C. W. Blakeslee & Sons, Inc. · McManus v. Jarvis · Armstrong v. Leverone · Nielsen v. Board of Appeals on Zoning
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he rule applicable to the corporate authorities of municipal bodies . . . that when the mode in which their power is to be exercised is prescribed . . . that mode is to be followed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The inherent nature of an undertaking establishment is such that, if located in a residential district, it will inevitably create an atmosphere detrimental to the use and enjoyment of residence property, produce material annoyance and inconvenience to the occupants of adjacent dwellings, and render them physically uncomfortable, and in the absence of a strong showing of public necessity, its location in such a district should not be permitted over the protest of those who would be materially injured thereby."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Trawick“The greater weight of recent authority is to the effect that the establishment and operation of an undertaking business in a purely residential section, under circumstances which would cause a depressed feeling to the families in the immediate neighborhood, and a constant reminder of death, appreciably impairing their happiness, or weakening their power to resist disease, and depreciating the value of their property, constitutes a nuisance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Trawick
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.