Meeks v. Wood’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 1995 · most notably 86 Ill. 2d 1 - Village of Wilsonville v. SCA Services, Inc. (1981), Muehlman v. Keilman (1971)
6 federal appellate · 23 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 19 N.J. Eq. 294 - Ross v. Butler · Dittman v. Repp · Wade v. Miller · Powell v. Bentley & Gerwig Furniture Co.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n the nature of things and of society, it is not reasonable that every annoyance should constitute an injury such as the law will remedy or prevent.... [T]he parties must give and take, live and let live....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Whatever is injurious to health, or indecent, or offensive to the senses, or 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.”
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.