Jones v. Trawick’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2017
2 federal appellate · 7 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 Jack v. Torrant · State Ex Rel. Skillman v. City of Miami · Saier v. Joy · Knowles v. Central Allapattah Properties, Inc. · Philbrick v. City of Miami Beach
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"This court recognizes that the law of private nuisance is bottomed on the fundamental rule that every person should so use his own property as not to injure that of another, as expressed in the maxim sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas, Reaver v. Martin Theatres of Florida, Inc., Fla., 52 So.2d 682, 683 , 25 A.L.R.2d 1451 , and that `Anything which annoys or disturbs one in the free use, possession, or enjoyment of his property, or which renders its ordinary use or occupation physically uncomfortable, is a "nuisance" and may be restrained.' Knowles v. Central Allapattah Properties, Inc., 145 Fla. 123 , 198 So. 819 ."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[The plaintiffs] did not buy [their homes] with the expectation of living forever in the gloomy shadow of death, and with the disquieting interruptions of their normal pastimes and peaceful pursuits accasioned by constantly recurring funeral services. We know of no one who would not object to the thought of drinking water that had been drawn from a surface so near the dead, no matter how pure the health authorities had stated it to be.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘The greater weight of recent authority is to the effect that the establishment and operation of an undertaking business in a purely residential section, under circumstances which would ■cause a depressed feeling to the families in the immediate neighborhood, and a constant reminder of death, appreciably impairing their happiness, or weakening their power to resist disease, and depreciating the value of their property, constitutes a nuisance.’ ” {Emphasis supplied.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Overby v. Piet
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.