Finney v. Berry’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently November 1993 · most notably Price v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co. (1909), Davidson v. St. Louis Transit Co. (1908)
1 federal appellate · 69 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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The better opinion, however, seems to be that, in order to maintain an action for damages resulting from a nuisance on defendant’s land, where such nuisance was erected by a previous owner before conveyance to defendant, it is necessary to show that before the commencement of the action the defendant had notice or knowledge of the existence of the nuisance.” (Page 365.)”
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.