Livingston v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Ranney v. Istituto Pontificio Delle Maestre Filippini (1955), Johnson v. BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT, ETC. (1976)
29 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Landay v. Board of Zoning Appeals · Langbein v. Board of Zoning Appeals · Matter of 440 E. 102nd St. Corp. v. Murdock · Alexander v. Phillips · People v. Levisen
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An anticipated nuisance will not be enjoined unless it clearly appears a nuisance will necessarily result from the act (here the attendance of more than 50 children) it is sought to enjoin. Relief will usually be denied until a nuisance has been committed where the thing sought to be enjoined may or may not become such, depending on its use or other circumstances. Amdor v. Cooney, 241 Iowa 777, 784 , 43 N.W.2d 136, 141 , and citations.”
3 later decisions 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.