Killian v. Goodman’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 1983
15 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 Schadt v. Brill · James v. Irvine · Rosenzweig v. Rose · Oliver v. Williams · Kelman v. Singer
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * We think counsel is wrong. In Schadt v. Brill, 173 Mich. 647 , 139 N.W. 878 , 45 L.R.A. (N.S.) 726, this court held that the words ‘a dwelling . house,’ used in a restrictive covenant, mean a single dwelling house. If a dwelling house means a single dwelling house, why does not a residence mean a single residence? The letter ‘a’ has some significance before the word ‘residence.’ A horse means one horse, ' a single horse; it does not mean a team or 33 horses. So a residence means one residence, a single residence, not 33 residences. * * * ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Green v. Gerner · Farmer v. Trepp“The defendants' conveyances restrict the use of his lots to `a residence,' and therefore prohibit the erection of a 33-family apartment house.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Green v. Gerner
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.