Scheuer v. Britt’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably Scheuer v. Britt (1928), Laney v. Early (1974)
25 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 De Gray v. Monmouth Beach Club House Co. · Sprague v. Kimball · McMahon v. Williams · Allen v. Bromberg · Allen v. Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to be sold solely for residential purposes; that an auction sale was held on the premises, at which sale it was publicly announced that all lots sold were to be for residential purposes only.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scheuer v. Britt
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.