Swenson v. Erickson’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2023
2 federal appellate · 22 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 Cowling v. Colligan · World Peace Movement of America v. Newspaper Agency Corp. · Buehner Block Co. v. UWC ASSOCIATES · Johnson v. Morton Thiokol, Inc. · Guyton v. Yancey
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[glenerally, unambiguous restrictive covenants should be enforced as written.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“These covenants are to run with the land and shall be binding on all parties and all persons claiming under them until January 1, 1994, at which time said covenants shall be automatically extended for successive periods of 10 years unless by vote of a majority of the then owners of the building sites covered by these covenants it is agreed to change said covenants in whole or part.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Wle assume that the next such time [to terminate the covenants] will be on January 1, 2004.”
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.