Oliver v. Hewitt’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently January 2009 · most notably Murphey v. Gray (1958), Davidson Bros. v. D. Katz & Sons, Inc. (1990)
5 federal appellate · 28 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 Cheatham v. Taylor · Tardy v. Creasy · Klaff v. Pratt · 77 W. Va. 531 - Boggs v. Friend · Allison v. Greear
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This personal covenant is, however, binding between the original parties, both at law and in equity, specifically stated, it falls within that class of covenants which at law bind only the original parties as it does not run with the land; but, in equity, one is bound by such a personal restrictive covenant even though it does not run with the land if he takes title with knowledge of its existence, even though the deed to him did not recite the restriction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hyde v. Liebelt
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.