Evans v. Foss’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently August 1960 · most notably Stewart v. Finkelstone (1910), Newton Girl Scout Council, Inc. v. Massachusetts Turnpike Authority (1956)
49 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Jackson v. Stevenson · Peck v. Conway · Hano v. Bigelow · Linzee v. Mixer · Hopkins v. Smith
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a familiar principle of law . . . that when one makes deeds of different portions of a tract of land, each containing the same restriction upon the lot conveyed, which is imposed as a part of a general plan for the benefit of the several lots, such a restriction not only imposes a liability upon the grantee of each lot as between him and the grantor, but it gives him a right in the nature of an easement, which will be enforced in equity against the grantee of one of the other lots, although there is no direct, contractual relation between the two. Through the common character of the deeds the grantees are given an interest in a contractual stipulation which is made for their common benefit.” (p. 515.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“furtherance of a general scheme for the improvement of the granted property and that the same were imposed to benefit the parcels conveyed,”
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.