Joslin v. Pine River Development Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Simpson v. Calivas (1994), Riss v. Angel (1997)
30 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 Traficante v. Pope · Hanley v. Misischi · Roy v. State · Bouley v. Nashua · Stockdale v. Lester
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.
“[t]he former prejudice against restrictive covenants which led courts to strictly construe them is yielding to a gradual recognition that they are valuable land use planning devices.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“private land use restrictions `have been particularly important in the twentieth century when the value of property often depends in large measure upon maintaining the character of the neighborhood in which it is situated.'”
2 later decisions 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.