Petroleum Refining Co. v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 1942
12 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 Baltimore v. Fifth Baptist Church · Booth v. . R., W. O.T.R.R. Co. · William v. Beck · People v. Detroit White Lead Works Corp. · Davis v. Sawyer
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A nuisance is public where it affects the rights enjoyed by citizens as part of the public, that is, the right to which every citizen is entitled, whereas a private nuisance is anything, done to the hurt, annoyance, or detriment of the lands, tenements, or hereditaments of another.” Also see 46 C. J., Section 3, pages 646-648.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.