Harbison v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2025
15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here one from pure malice shuts air and light from his neighbor's dwelling.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]o concede this would be to nullify the statute; for it is not possible for malice to conceive any kind or form of structure which would not in some measure protect premises from observation”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“inasmuch as the structure screened their premises from persons occupying the petitioner's house, they can maintain it.”
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.