permanent nuisance
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 289 U.S. 334 - City of Harrisonville Mo v. W S Dickey Clay Mfg Co · 1933Most cited · 432 citing opinions
This nuisance has at all times been removable by the device of secondary treatment of the sewage. It may be hereafter abated at any time by the state health authorities requiring such treatment. The city may itself conclude that this should be done in the public interest, financial, or otherwise. Being so terminable, pollution of the creek cannot be deemed to be a permanent nuisance as of the date of the installation of the disposal plant in 1923.
How often courts cite the case defining “permanent nuisance”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “permanent nuisance” — 431 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.