Ludgate v. Somerville’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently January 2007 · most notably Higdon v. Jaffa (1949), Continental Oil Co. v. Fennemore (1931)
49 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 Trustees of Columbia College v. . Thacher · Landell v. Hamilton · Jackson v. Stevenson · Spahr v. Cape · Pierce v. St. Louis Union Trust Co.
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“contractual obligations imposed upon all lot owners.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Valenti v. Hopkins
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.