Scott v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Tvardek v. Powhatan Vill. Homeowners Ass'n, Inc. (2016), Nextel WIP Lease Corp. v. Saunders (2008)
1 federal appellate · 33 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 Yogman v. Parrott · Deitrick v. Leadbetter · Friedberg v. Riverpoint Building Committee · Jernigan v. Capps · Waynesboro Village, L.L.C. v. BMC Properties
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are not favored, and the burden is on [the party] who would enforce such covenants to establish that the activity objected to is within their terms.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“ambiguous both 'as to whether a residential purpose requires an intention to be physically present in a home for more than a transient stay and as to whether the foeus of the inquiry is on the owner's use of the property or the renter's use. ».: Moreover, if the phrase 'residential purposes' carries with it a 'duration of use' component, it is ambiguous as to when a rental of the property moves from short-term 'to long-term.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“if it is apparent from a reading of the whole instrument that the restrictions carry a certain meaning by definite and necessary implication.”
2 later decisions 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.