LEH v. BURKE’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably 296 Pa. Super. 77 - Birchwood Lakes Community Ass'n v. Comis (1982), Allen v. Timberlake Ranch Landowners Ass'n (2005)
28 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 Washington N. Gas Co. v. Johnson · Parker v. Hough · Merritz v. Circelli · 181 Pa. Super. 456 - J. C. Grille, Inc. Liquor License Case · Ritter v. Hill
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . [Ijmprecision is not fatal to a covenant in a deed. . . . The rule is that if an agreement is not clearly expressed, an effort is made by the court interpreting the language to give effect to the intention of the parties as expressed at the time. ‘Where the language of a deed or a restriction is not clear, then in order to ascertain the intention of the parties its language should be interpreted in the light of the subject matter, the apparent object or purpose of the parties, and the conditions existing when it was made.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““When a promise to do an affirmative act, such as in this case to make a monetary payment, is found to run with the land, the person in possession at the time the obligation matures is responsible for discharging it. Conversely, prior or subsequent owners of the property, including the original covenantor, are relieved of responsibility not arising contemporaneously with their interest in the land.””
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.