Phillips v. Donaldson’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Pennsylvania Co. v. Sun Co. (1927), Price v. Anderson (1947)
49 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 Landell v. Hamilton · Orne v. Fridenberg · Hohl v. Modell · Prendergast v. Walls · Rhodes v. Dunbar
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The difference between a public and a private nuisance does not depend upon the nature of the thing done but upon the question whether it affects the general public or merely some private individual or individuals”: Phillips v. Donaldson 269 Pa. 244 (1920).”
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.