Hamilton v. CCM, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Tupper v. Dorchester County (1997), Contegni v. Payne (1989)
37 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 Townes Associates, Ltd. v. City of Greenville · EDWARDS v. Surratt · McDONALD v. WELBORN · Derby Heights, Inc. v. Gantt Water & Sewer District · Bomar v. Echols
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A restriction on the use of the property must be created in express terms or by plain and unmistakable implication, and all such restrictions are to be strictly construed, with all doubts resolved in favor of the free use of 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.