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7 canonical passages across 7 cases, quoted by 21 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from State v. Kaster.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | State v. Kaster Anchor | green | “will not be permitted to show that the public benefit resulting from his act is equal to the public inconvenience which arises from it” | 3 |
| 2 | Coger v. North West. Union Packet Co. | green | “the same right in every state and territory in the united states, to make and enforce contracts.” | 3 |
| 3 | Callahan v. City of Des Moines | green | “flies and effluvia from that barn” | 3 |
| 4 | Trulock v. Merte | green | “the evidence shows that they kept the pen as clean as was possible, yet offensive smells arose from it, which penetrated plaintiff's house. the pen, when used for that purpose, would necessarily be a nuisance, and plaintiff is entitled to have it abated.” | 3 |
| 5 | Churchill v. Burlington Water Co. | green | “a statute purporting to immunize a defendant who creates or maintains a nuisance from liability to another for the value of the diminution of the property caused by the nuisance is unconstitutional.” | 3 |
| 6 | Millhiser v. H. Willard, Son & Co. | green | “also if a person keeps his hogs, or other noisome animals, so near the house of another that the stench of them incommodes him and makes the air unwholesome, this is an injurious nuisance, as it tends to deprive him of the use and benefit of his house.” | 3 |
| 7 | McGuire v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad | green | “the spirit which pervades the police power is closely related to that which is embodied in the common-law maxim, 'sic utere tuo alienum non lædas.” | 3 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment: for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.