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13 Ill. App. 2d 451 - Staley v. Mears’s Empirical Analysis

1957

Citation profile

35
cited by 35 later decisions
6
states following
June 1983
most recently cited

8 federal appellate · 27 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 1983 · most notably 16 Ill. App. 3d 1 - G. H. Sternberg & Co. v. Cellini (1973), 44 Ill. App. 3d 559 - Gatton v. Page (1976)

8 federal appellate · 27 state decisions

1701957196019701980decided

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 Hutchinson v. Ulrich · Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. v. Western Union Telegraph Co. · Ewertsen v. Gerstenberg · Turney v. Shriver · O'Gallagher v. Lockhart

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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““[0]ur courts have held that restrictive covenants should be construed strictly against the subdivider and liberally in favor of the builder or owner. Where there is any doubt, the matter must be resolved in favor of natural rights and against restrictions.””
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 54 Ill. App. 3d 257 - St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church v. Kreider · 36 Ill. App. 2d 199 - Simons v. Work of God Corp.
  2. ““The courts of Illinois have long adhered to the policy that agreements which place restrictions on the power of alienation of property will be strictly construed so that such restrictions will not be extended beyond what is expressly stipulated and ‘ “ * * * all doubts should, as a general rule, be resolved in favor of a free use of property and against restrictions.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 54 Ill. App. 3d 257 - St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church v. Kreider

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.