Bryant v. Whitney’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2004
9 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 Hines v. Brode · Loud v. Pendergast · McDougald v. Argonaut Land & Development Co. · Zelman v. Kaufherr
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.
““ ‘Where there has been no uniform observance of the restrictions and substantially all the landowners have so eon- ducted themselves as to indicate an abandonment of the right, which is in the nature of an easement, to have the neighborhood kept to the standard established by the original plan, and where the enforcement will not tend materially to restore to the district the character imposed upon it by the scheme, and the infraction complained of does not diminish the value of the other estates, then it would be inequitable and oppressive to compel at great loss a compliance with the restrictions. ’ ””
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.