Wernke v. Halas’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Price v. State (1993), Sowers v. Forest Hills Subdivision (2013)
36 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 Texas v. Johnson · Frisby v. Schultz · Kovacs v. Cooper · Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation · Rowan v. United States Post Office Department
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Injurious to health; (2) indecent; (3) offensive to the senses; or (4) an obstruction to the free use of property; so as essentially to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property; is a nuisance, and the subject of an action.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he determination that something is a nuisance per se is a question of law for the court, and the determination of whether that which is not in itself a nuisance is a nuisance in fact is a question for the jury or the judge as trier of fact.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“'whether the thing complained of produces such a condition as in the judgment of reasonable persons is naturally productive of actual physical discomfort to persons of ordinary sensibility, tastes, and habits.”
3 later decisions 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.