Mason Family Trust v. DeVaney’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 2025
18 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 Yogman v. Parrott · Hill v. Community of Damien of Molokai · State Ex Rel. Office of the State Engineer v. Lewis · Cain v. Champion Window Co. of Albuquerque, LLC · Munson v. Milton
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While [the owner's] renting of the property as a dwelling on a short-term basis may have constituted an economic endeavor on [his] part, to construe that activity as one forbidden by the language of the deed restrictions [prohibiting use for business or commercial purposes] is unreasonable and strained. Strictly and reasonably construed, the deed restrictions do not forbid short-term rental for dwelling purposes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In the context of a residential subdivision, we interpret a dwelling purpose to be use as a house or abode, and once a proper use has been established, we do not attach any requirement of permanency or length of stay.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“no part thereof shall at any time be used for business or commercial purposes”
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.