Sullivan v. Royer’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably 137 Cal. App. 4th 292 - County of Santa Clara v. Atlantic Richfield Co. (2006), Judson v. L.A. Suburban Gas Co. (1910)
38 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 People v. Anderson · Sweetser v. Dobbins · Tuebner v. Cal. St. R.R. · Courtwright v. Bear River & Auburn Water & Mining Co. · People ex rel. Blood v. Moore
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An abatement of a nuisance is accomplished by a court of equity by means of an injunction proper and suitable to the facts of each case.”
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.