Dunn v. Barton’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 2007
1 federal appellate · 7 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.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“restriction upon the manner of using the premises runs with the land and is binding upon the estate in the hands of sub-tenants . . . [who] take only the title of the lessee, and with the title, limitations and restrictions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“subject to the covenants running with the land in the hands of her lessor,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“affects the mode of enjoyment of the premises.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.