Pickard v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1856
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1936 · most notably Camfield v. United States (1897), Heywood v. Tillson (1883)
30 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Parker & Edgarton v. Foote · Mahan v. Brown · Farrand v. Marshall · Bellinger v. People
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the instruction that if the barn was built to be used in a certain way and was let to a tenant who in fact used it in that way and such use proved noxious or injurious to the plaintiff, the defendant is responsible for the injdry, I think required some modification. If the use in that way would necessarily, under ordinary circumstances, be a nuisance, the proposition is correct.””
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.