Deitrick v. Leadbetter’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Horace Case v. Arthur E. Morrisette (1973), Stewart v. Welsh (1944)
3 federal appellate · 50 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Rombauer v. Compton Heights Christian Church · Stevenson v. Spivey · Cheatham v. Taylor · Sayles v. Hall · Rogers v. Zwolak
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No hard and fast rule can be laid down as to when changed conditions have defeated the purpose of restrictions, but it can be safely asserted the changes must be so radical as practically to destroy the essential objects and purposes of the agreement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“shall not be used except for residential purposes.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Those who conduct taverns, hotels and boarding houses may live in them, but can it be said that they are not `used except for residential purposes?'”
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.