Burke v. Gardner’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2009
8 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 Brindley v. Meara · Catherwood v. Morgan · Kenwood Land Co. v. Hancock Investment Co. · 99 Ind. App. 365 - Owen v. Fletcher Savings & Trust Building Co. · Guilford v. . Porter
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.
“Id. (quoting 14 Am.Jur. Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions § 339). The facts of this case fall somewhere between Adams and Burke, but we believe they fall closer to Burke. There is no allegation in the pleadings that Reinstatlier has bought construction materials, hired a contractor, or set a date certain to begin construction on the addition. However, that she intends to imminently begin construction on an addition to her home in violation of HOA restrictive covenants is not”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“may institute his [complaint] when the erection of a prohibited structure is threatened without waiting for its actual construction.”
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.