Giller v. West’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 1992
17 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 Walker v. Cronin · Taylor v. Fickas · Chatfield v. Wilson · Phelps v. . Nowlen · Cargar v. Fee
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Had the appellant (appellees here) erected a house thirty feet high and 114 feet long on the part of his (their) lot adjacent to the appellee’s (appellants here) premises, thereby in a much more serious manner cutting off the sunlight, air and view from appellee’s (appellants here) lot and residence, she (they) could not have been (cannot be) heard to complain of such use of his (their) land.””
2 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.