Cypress Gardens, Ltd. v. Platt’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2017
16 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 Las Luminarias of the New Mexico Council of the Blind v. Isengard · Montoya v. Barreras · Watson Truck & Supply Co., Inc. v. Males · Rhue v. Cheyenne Homes, Inc. · Pillsbury v. Blumenthal
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[m]ost jurisdictions ... recognize the validity and, in a proper case, the enforceability of covenants requiring consent to construction or approval of plans even if those covenants do not contain explicit standards for approval.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he most commonly voiced criticism of such [a restrictive covenant] is that it is vague, fixes no standards and hence affords the grantor an opportunity to be capricious, unfair and arbitrary”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]n determining what is reasonable ... the trial court should consider the facts and circumstances surrounding”
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.