Doss v. Billington’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 1982
5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is a broad distinction between those injuries occasioned by causes permanent in their character, and which are likely to continue with no right in plaintiff to abate them, and those which arise from nuisances which may be discontinued.” ... In such [the latter] case the measure of damages would be confined to the temporary injury inflicted by such nuisance in diminishing the value of the use of the property, and it would be error to admit evidence going to show a diminution in the selling value of the property, for that would involve the consideration of permanent injury. In the case at bar the injury to the property was only temporary, for, by an expenditure of money and labor, the ditches could have been filled, and the original condition of the property restored. The Court was therefore in error in charging that the measure of damages would be the depreciation in the value of the property. [Emphasis added.] 98 Tenn. at 379 , 39 S.W. 717 .”
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.