Sheets v. . Dillon’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably Runyon v. Paley (1992), Wise v. HARRINGTON GROVE COMMUNITY ASS'N (2003)
1 federal appellate · 31 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 Turner v. . Glenn · Brenizer v. . Stephens · Elrod v. Phillips
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A person owning a body of land, and selling a portion thereof, may, for the benefit of his remaining land, impose upon the land granted any restrictions not against public, policy that he sees fit. 7 R.C.L. 1114. In the absence of a general plan of sub division, development and sale subject to restrictions, the restriction limiting the use of the portion sold is deemed to be personal to the grantor and for the benefit of the land retained. Ordinarily, it is only when the subdivided property is conveyed by deeds containing uniform restrictions in accord with a general scheme and for the benefit of all* within a specified area that the other grantees of the owner of the original tract may enforce the restriction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chappell v. Winslow“The servitude imposed by restrictive covenants is a species of incorporeal right. It restrains the owner of the servient estate from making certain use of his property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`to the same extent that it would lend judicial sanction to any other valid contractual relationship.'”
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.