Edwards v. Wiseman’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 106 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Hernandez v. Harson (1959), Rhodes v. Collier (1949)
2 federal appellate · 106 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 Queensborough Land Co. v. Cazeaux · Rowland v. . Miller · Ouachita Home Site & Realty Co. v. Collie · Hill v. Wm. P. Ross, Inc. · Three Rivers Oil Co. v. Laurence
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law is clear that building restriction clauses constitute real rights, not personal to the vendor, and inure to the benefit of all other grantees under a general plan of development, and are real rights running with the land; and that the remedy of the other grantees to prevent a violation of the restrictions by another is by injunction.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““The question of whether or not there has been a general waiver or relinquishment of the restrictive clauses by common consent or universal acquiescence due to multiple violations without protest or objection depends upon the facts of each case. In the instances where the violations have been so general or substantial without protest as to defeat the objects and purposes of the building restrictions, the courts have held that the restrictions are waived or relinquished and cannot subsequently be enforced. On the other hand, where there have been several violations but not in the immediate neighborhood or in close proximity or adjoining the property of the owners who make the complaint, they have not lost their right to obtain relief through the court enforcing the restrictive clauses. Caldwell v. Donaghey, 108 Ark. 60 , 156 S.W. 839 , 45 L.R.A.,N.S., 725, Ann.Cas.1915B, 133; Note, 46 A.L.R. 373 , 375; O’Gallagher v. Lockhart, 263 Ill. 489 , 105 N.E. 295 , 52 L.R.A.,N.S., 1044.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana, That all actions to enjoin, or to obtain damages for the Commission, or continuance, of a violation of restrictions contained in the title to land, where otherwise such action presently exists under the laws of this State, must be brought within two years from the commission of said violation; * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roche v. St. Romain
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.