Adams v. Michael’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 53 state decisions

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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The granting of injunctions on applications of this character involves the exercise of a most delicate power, and the court is always reluctant to act, except in cases where the right is clear and unquestioned, and the facts show an urgent necessity. The general rule is that an injunction will only be granted to restrain an actual existing nuisance; but where it can be plainly seen that acts which, when completed, will certainly constitute or result in a grievous nuisance, or where a party threatens, or begins to do, or insists upon his right to do, certain acts, the court will interfere, though no nuisance may have been actually committed, if the circumstances of the case enable the court to form an opinion as to the illegality of the acts complained, of, and the irreparable injury which will ensue.” Adams v. Michael, 38 Md. 129 .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 384 Wis. 2d 127 - Krueger v. Allenergy Hixton, LLC · McDonough v. Robbens

2. “[Wjhether it be smoke, smell, noise, vapors, or water, or any gas or fluid ... [t]he owner of one tenement cannot cause or permit to pass over, or flow into his neighbor’s tenement, any one or more of these things in such a way as materially to interfere with the ordinary comfort of the occupier of the neighboring tenement, or so as to injure his property.... The real question in all the cases is the question of fact, viz: whether the annoyance is such as materially to interfere with the ordinary comfort of human existence?”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Wietzke v. Chesapeake Conference Ass'n.

3. ““Now, it is certainly true that the owners or occupiers of dwelling-houses, whether in the city or country, have the right to enjoy pure and wholesome air, that is, as pure and wholesome as their local situation can reasonably supply; and any act which materially corrupts or pollutes the air, done without authority or justification, is strictly a nuisance.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Leatherbury v. Gaylord Fuel Corp.