Lyon v. Bethlehem Engineering Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 1994
17 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 Lowell v. Strahan · Presby v. . Benjamin · Bovin v. Galitzka · Riddle v. Littlefield · R.L. Association v. . Kellogg
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It would be strange indeed if the landlord, who, by express terms, has limited the tenant’s rights as to the use and occupancy of the building in question, should be held to be powerless to prevent its use for the purpose to which the defendants have attempted to put it. A court of equity may, by injunction, prevent the defendants from using the building for a purpose which •violates the restrictive covenants of the lease.””
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.