Oehler v. Levy’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably Civil Liberties for Urban Believers v. City of Chicago (2003), 34 Ill. 2d 495 - Droste v. Kerner (1966)
11 federal appellate · 33 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 Campbell v. . Seaman · Laflin & Rand Powder Co. v. Tearney · Wahle v. Reinbach · McDonald v. English · Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. v. Darke
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““One cannot erect a nuisance upon his land'adjoining vacant lands owned by another and thus measurably control the uses to which his neighbor’s land may in the future be subjected. He may make a reasonable and lawful use of his land and thus cause his neighbor some inconvenience, and probably some damage which the law would regard as damnum absque injuria. But he cannot place upon his land any thing which the law would pronounce a nuisance, and thus compel his neighbor to leave his land vacant, or to use it in such way only as the neighboring nuisance Will allow.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Clarke v. Boysen
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.