Roach v. Combined Utility Commission’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2016
10 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 Townes Associates, Ltd. v. City of Greenville · Childs v. City of Columbia · Arnold v. City of Spartanburg · Neal v. Darby · Strong v. Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an act, occupation, or structure which is not a nuisance per se, but which may become a nuisance by reason of cireumstances, location or surroundings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a nuisance will inevitably or necessarily result from the act or thing which it is sought to <enjoin.”
1 later decision 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.