Sloan v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Providence Square Associates, L.L.C. v. G.D.F., Inc. (2000), Waynesboro Village, L.L.C. v. BMC Properties (1998)
3 federal appellate · 22 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 Mid-State Equipment Co. v. Bell · Friedberg v. Riverpoint Building Committee · Minner v. City of Lynchburg · Riordan v. Hale · Stevenson v. Spivey
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“such covenants when applicable, but the person claiming the benefit of the restrictions must prove that the covenants are applicable to the acts of which he complains.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) privity between the original parties to the covenant (horizontal privity); (2) privity between the original parties and their successors in interest (vertical privity); (3) an intent by the original covenanting parties that the benefits and burdens of the covenant will run with the land; (4) that the covenant ‘touches and concerns’ the land; and (5) the covenant must be in writing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Wjhen, on a transfer of land, there is a covenant or even an informal contract or understanding that certain restrictions in the use of the land conveyed shall be observed, the restrictions will be enforced by equity, at the suit of the party or parties intended to be benefited thereby, against any subsequent owner of the land except a purchaser for value without notice of the agreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.