Contegni v. Payne’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 district · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Millbrook Owners Ass'n v. Hamilton Standard (2001), Carbone v. Vigliotti (1992)
2 district · 81 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 Finley v. Aetna Life & Casualty Co. · Virgo v. Lyons · Gionfriddo v. Gartenhaus Cafe · Kelly v. Ivler · Finley v. Aetna Life & Casualty Co.
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) mutual covenants in deeds exchanged by adjoining landowners; (2) uniform covenants contained in deeds executed by the owner of property who is dividing his property into building lots under a general development scheme; and (3) covenants exacted by a grantor from his grantee presumptively or actually for the benefit and protection of his adjoining land which he retains.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“as owners of the benefitted remaining land, against the [p]laintiffs upon the equitable principle that prevents one having knowledge of the just rights of others from defeating those rights.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The doctrine of the enforceability of uniform restrictive covenants is of equitable origin. The equity springs from the presumption that each purchaser has paid a premium for the property in reliance upon the uniform development plan being carried out. While that purchaser is bound by and observes the covenant, it would be inequitable to allow any other landowner, who is also subject to the same restriction, to violate it. Whitton v. Clark, 112 Conn. 28 , 35 , 151 A. 305 (1930). This simple explanation is most persuasive where a challenged restriction is contained in a deed to an entire tract through which title to all CT Page 4701 lots can be traced, or where the restriction is stated on a map of the tract referenced to in the conveyances. Id.”
2 later decisions 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.