Blagen v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 1999
1 district · 12 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 Cranford v. . Tyrrell. · Lansing v. Smith · Hall v. Arnott · Gilbert v. Showerman · Fleischner v. Citizens' Investment Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The “unlawful use of property (such as for a house of ill fame), which renders the premises of a neighbor unfit for comfortable or respectable occupation and enjoyment, is a private nuisance, against which the protection of a court of equity may be invoked, although the use complained of also constitutes a public nuisance.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“All property in a city is affected by the maintenance of a bawdy house, just in proportion to its contiguity thereto, and the damage which such property sustains, while differing in degree, does not differ in kind; and, such being the case, the owner of any such property affected in the same general way as other property therein could not successfully invoke equitable relief to enjoin its continuance. But where, by reason of the proximity of such property to the public nuisance, disgusting scenes and sounds shock the sense of those whose property, or the enjoyment thereof, is affected thereby, the injury sustained is necessarily different in kind from that suffered by the public at large[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““A private nuisance, however, may in some instances become so intolerable to a party whose property, or the enjoyment thereof, is affected thereby, that its discontinuance becomes an imperious necessity» in which case equity only can afford the immediate relief demanded, because the slow process of the law courts is not adequate to the occasion.””
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.