Rushton Mining Co. v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The presence in the outdoor atmosphere of any form of contaminant in such place, manner, or concentration inimical or which may be inimical to the public health, safety, or welfare or which is, or may be injurious to human, plant or animal life, or to property, or which unreasonably interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Locust Point Quarries, Inc.

2. ““. . . disclos [es] a marked shift from combating air pollution within limitations of technical feasibility and economic reasonableness to protection not only of the air resource itself, but also of the public health, property and recreational resources of the Commonwealth.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Bethlehem Steel Corp.