Hall v. Gulledge’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Allen v. Axford (1969), Callahan v. Weiland (1973)
32 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 Scheuer v. Britt · Virgin v. Garrett · McCall v. Nettles · McMahon v. Williams · Little v. Redditt
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the owner of a tract of land adopts a general scheme for its improvement, dividing it into lots, and conveying these with uniform restrictions as to the purposes for which the lands may be used, such restrictions create equitable easements in favor of the owners of the several lots, which may be enforced in equity by any one of such owners. Such restrictions are not for the benefit of the grantor only, but for the benefit of all purchasers. The owner of each lot has as appurtenant to his lot a right in the nature of an easement upon the other lots, which he may enforce in equity.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage““There is excepted from this conveyance and reserved to the grantor, its successors and assigns, an easement six (6) feet in width along the rear property line of the said lot for electric light and telephone poles and lines, and for sewers; and also along the east line of said Lot Twenty-five (25) for storm sewer. ****** “No out-building, garages and servants’ houses on said property shall be erected except in the basement of the dwelling, facing to the side or rear.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hall v. Gulledge
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.