Albright v. Fish’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably Albright v. Fish (1980), Rogers v. Watson (1991)
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 McDonough v. WW Snow Construction Co., Inc. · Welch v. Barrows · Latchis v. John · Kellogg v. Robinson · State v. O'CONNELL
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Some promises are so inti mately connected with the land as to require the conclusion that the necessary intention for the running of the benefit is present absent language clearly negating that intent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“First, the covenant must be in writing. Secondly, the parties must intend that the covenant run with the land. Thirdly, the covenant must “touch and concern” the land. Lastly, there must be privity of estate between the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rogers v. Watson
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.