Wax v. Woods’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2013
7 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 157 So. 2d 570 - Brown v. Dauzat · Pike v. Kentwood Bank · Great Eastern Oil & Refining Co. v. Bullock · Munson v. Berdon · Chexnayder v. Rogers
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Restrictive covenants are to be construed most strictly against the grantor and persons seeking to enforce them, and liberally in favor of the grantee, all doubts being resolved in favor of a free use of property and against restrictions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"No sign of any kind shall be displayed to the public view on any lot, except one professional sign of not more than one square foot...." (Emphasis added.)”
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.