183 So. 2d 30 - Thompson v. Squibb’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Long v. Branham (1967), Holaday v. Fraker (1996)
25 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 Moore v. Stevens · 81 So. 2d 637 - Board of Public Instruction v. Town of Bay Harbor I.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is obvious that the use of defendant's lot as a connecting street so that there would be access from the streets of the adjoining subdivision to those of the subdivision for whose benefit the restrictive covenants were made is not in any sense a residential use or a use incidental thereto.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“In construing restrictive covenants the question is primarily one of intention and the fundamental rule is that the intention of the parties as shown by the agreement governs, being determined by a fair interpretation of the entire text of the covenant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“All land included in Mobile Homes Estate shall be used for residential purposes only, except such lots, blocks or parcels as may be hereafter designated for other purposes by the Committee.”
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.