Hill v. Pierson’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 1991
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.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Another point discussed and presented for adjudication is, will the continuance of a public nuisance, and one which is criminal in its nature, be enjoined in an action for such purpose by a private party? It has been stated by this court that a public nuisance will be enjoined in a suit instituted by a private party for such purpose, but only when the plaintiff does or will sustain a special damage, — a personal injury, — distinct from that which he suffers in common with the rest of the public (Shed v. Hawthorne, 3 Neb. 179 ); and in the case of Farrell v. Cook, reported in 16 Neb., beginning on page 483, and 20 N. W. 720 , this rule was applied where the nuisance enjoined was both public and criminal in its nature, and was again recognized in the case of Barton v. Cattle Co., 28 Neb. 350 , 44 N. W. 454 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eckdahl v. Hurwitz
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.