Schultz v. Trascher’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

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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.

1. “One is subject to liability for a private nuisance if, but only if, his conduct is a legal cause of an invasion of another’s interest in the private use and enjoyment of land, and the invasion is either (a) intentional and unreasonable, or (b) unintentional and otherwise actionable under the rules controlling liability for negligent ... conduct ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Borowski v. Weinhold (Weinhold)

2. “was enacted as a 'recodification of the law on real property' and that it sets forth 'real property remedies obtainable by a lawsuit and the legal procedure to be used to obtain remedies.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 384 Wis. 2d 127 - Krueger v. Allenergy Hixton, LLC

3. “The statute's enactment was the beginning of a trend in our real property law to limit unbridled land use.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 342 Wis. 2d 162 - Apple Hill Farms Development, LLP v. Price