Carter v. Pace’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 2007
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 Snow v. Van Dam · Magnolia Textiles, Inc. v. Gillis · Frederic v. Merchants & Marine Bank · Twin States Realty Co. v. Kilpatrick · Goater v. Ely
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.
“"The language used will be read in its ordinary sense, and the restriction and burden will be construed in the light of the circumstances surrounding its formulation, with the idea of carrying out its object, purpose and intent. They are to be fairly and reasonably interpreted according to their apparent purpose."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Restrictions placed by the grantor on the use of property conveyed will be enforced if the intent to create them is clear, and if they are not contrary to law or public policy and are reasonable.”
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.