Holliday v. Sphar’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently July 1981 · most notably Turner v. . Glenn (1942), Horace Case v. Arthur E. Morrisette (1973)
12 federal appellate · 35 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 Easterbrook v. Hebrew Ladies Orphan Society · Clark v. . Devoe · McMurtry v. Phillips Investment Co. · Pierce v. St. Louis Union Trust Co. · Scharer v. Pantler
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The essence of the restrictions is, if the owner erects a residence thereon, the same shall cost not less than the sum designated in the deed, and not nearer the street fronting the same than the distance fixed in it. At most, such are no more than limited ‘building restrictions,’ and not a limitation on the free use of the land.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““No dwelling house shall be built in any part of said addition, when laid off into streets, lots and alleys, closer than 25 feet to the pavement line, and no residence shall be built on Boone avenue or Belmont street, which is now known as the Colby-■ ville Pike, costing less than thirty-five hundred ($3500.00)” dollars.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““In such case the rule is that restrictions on the use of property should be given that effect which the expressed language of the instrument containing the same authorizes, when considered in connection with the circumstances surrounding the transaction and the object which the parties had in view at the time they executed it. [Citing numerous authorities.] “’‘The law favors the free and untrammeled use of real property. Restrictions in conveyances on the fee are regarded unfavorably, and are therefore strictly construed.’ [Citing authorities.]””
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.