Jennings v. Bindseil’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 207th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Valence Operating Co. v. Dorsett · Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. v. New Ulm Gas, Ltd. · Operation Rescue-National v. Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeast Texas, Inc. · Pilarcik v. Emmons · Davis v. Huey
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the language of a restrictive covenant is unambiguous, the Texas Property Code requires that the restrictive covenant be liberally construed .... However, if the language is found to be ambiguous, [it] is construed strictly against the party seeking to enforce the restriction, and all doubts must be resolved in favor of the free and unrestricted use of the property.”
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.