Scheuer v. Britt’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Allen v. Axford (1969), Virgin v. Garrett (1936)
65 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 Tallmadge v. . the East River Bank · Jackson v. Stevenson · Hano v. Bigelow · Bacon v. Sandberg · Sanford v. Keer
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the owner of a tract of land adopts a general scheme for its improvement, dividing it into lots, and conveying these with uniform restrictions as to the purposes for which the lands may be used, such restrictions create equitable easements in favor of the owners of the several lots, which may be enforced in equity by any one of such owners. Such restrictions are not for the benefit of the grantor only, but for the benefit of all purchasers. The owner of each lot has as appurtenant to his lot a right in the nature of an easement upon the other lots, which he may enforce in equity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The restrictive covenant in the deed to complainant and others, that ‘all lots sold for residential purposes only,’ is some evidence, in fact strong evidence, if not conclusive, that such general scheme was inaugurated with reference to the subdivision.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.