Reynolds v. Soffer’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
108 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Federal Deposit Insurance v. Peabody, N.E., Inc. (1996), Cummings v. Tripp (1987)
108 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 Oklahoma v. Texas · Bianco v. Town of Darien · Connecticut Life & Health Insurance Guaranty Ass'n v. Jackson · Karls v. Alexandra Realty Corp. · Connecticut Mobile Home Assn., Inc. v. Jensen's, Inc.
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a court decides a jurisdictional question raised by a pretrial motion to dismiss, it must consider the allegations of the complaint in their most favorable light.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]ny person specifically and materially damaged by a violation of the zoning ordinances which has occurred or is likely to occur on another's land may seek injunctive relief restraining such violation [without exhausting administrative remedies].”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“the defendants' acts constitute a nuisance which adversely affects the plaintiffs' property, decreases its value, increases the risk of fire and other dangers, . . . noise, odors, pollution, and disease-causing substances discharged from a new ventilating system.”
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.