Calef v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 1986 · most notably Brodrib v. Doberstein (1928), 152 Ill. App. 3d 578 - Denton v. Allstate Insurance Co. (1986)
32 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 Great Falls Co. v. Worster · Ogden v. Lucas
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The principles of the law applicable to the case, are, in the main, well settled and familiar to the profession. Blackstone says a private nuisance is ‘ anything done to the hurt or annoyance of the lands, tenements or hereditaments of another.’ Book 3d (Sharswood’s edition), 214, side 216. And in the same book, at page 5, he also says ‘ whatsoever unlawfully annoys or doth damage to another is a nuisance, and such nuisance may be abated, that is, taken away or removed by the party aggrieved thereby, so as he commits no riot in the doing of it. But in order to justify the removal it must appear that the obstruction was wrongfully incumbering his premises, and that he therefore removed it, doing no unnecessary damage. If it appears that he unnecessarily destroyed it or appropriated it to his own use the justification fails. Waterman on Trespass, Sec. 684.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schmitz v. Ort
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.