Becker v. Arnfeld’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 2008
12 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 Dunn v. Dunn
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the express language of a restrictive covenant upon land is ambiguous and uncertain in its application to the facts, the intention of the parties to the covenants is controlling, and, if possible, that intention is to be ascertained from the entire language of the covenant agreement in connection with the subject matter of the covenants.”
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.