Kent v. Koch’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably Stegall v. Housing Authority of the City of Charlotte (1971), 78 Cal. App. 3d 461 - Sain v. Silvestre (1978)
27 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 Werner v. Graham · 34 Cal. 2d 442 - Hannula v. Hacienda Homes, Inc. · Wing v. Forest Lawn Cemetery Assn. · Marra v. Aetna Construction Co. · Firth v. Marovich
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . the grantors did reserve for themselves, their successors or assigns, the right to enjoin, abate or remedy by appropriate proceedings any breach of any of the restrictions. The right so reserved would be enforceable, in the absence of fraud, while the defendant Trumbull (the surviving grantor) remained owner of the adjoining lots; but after she had parted with the property which would derive benefit from a continuance of the restrictions, she would have no standing, in a court of equity at least, to complain of a breach. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A restriction in a deed, prohibiting the erection of any buildings on the land conveyed except a private residence of a specified minimum value is valid and enforceable at the suit of the grantor, so long as he continues to own any part of the tract for the benefit of which the restrictions were exacted.” (Italics ours.)”
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.