114 N.C. App. 571 - Williams v. Paley’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 2019
6 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 Caldwell v. Deese · Koontz v. City of Winston-Salem · Long v. Branham · J. T. Hobby & Son, Inc. v. Family Homes of Wake County, Inc. · Rombauer v. Compton Heights Christian Church
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n acquiescence in a violation of restrictive covenants does not amount to a waiver of the right to enforce the restrictions unless changed conditions within the covenanted area are so radical as practically to destroy the essential objects and purposes of the scheme of development.”
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.