21 Ariz. App. 581 - Grossman v. Hatley’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 2006 · most notably Heath v. Parker (1980), Giovanelli v. First Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n (1978)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 27 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 Goodman v. Newzona Investment Co. · Kubby v. Hammond · 19 Ariz. App. 488 - University Realty & Development Co. v. Omid-Gaf, Inc. · Brady v. Black Mountain Investment Co. · Galbraith v. Johnston
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Restrictive covenants are to be strictly construed against persons seeking to enforce them and any ambiguities or doubts as to their effect should be resolved in favor of the free use and enjoyment of the property and against restrictions. Palermo v. Allen, 91 Ariz. 57 , 369 P.2d 906 (1962); R & R Realty Co. v. Weinstein, 4 Ariz.App. 517 , 422 P.2d 148 (1966).””
3 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.