Pfeiffer v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Chamberlin v. Ciaffoni (1953), Rau v. Wilden Acres, Inc. (1954)
27 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 Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Sanderson · Collins v. Chartiers V. Gas Co. · Allegh. V. R. v. Pittsb. Junction R. · Pennsylvania Railroad Company's Appeal
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]very man has the right to the natural use and enjoyment of his own property, and if, while lawfully in such use and enjoyment without negligence, an unavoidable loss occurs to his neighbor, it is damnum absque injuria [i.e., loss without injury].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“by drilling a well and pumping, increased the aggregate quantity of water discharged, concentrated it at an artificial point of flow, and changed its character from fresh to salt”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in general, a right of flowage only, in the natural ways and natural quantities.”
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.