Toothaker v. Pleasant’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Horace Case v. Arthur E. Morrisette (1973), Baker v. Henderson (1941)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 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 Korn v. . Campbell · Summers v. Beeler · Sharp v. Ropes · Coughlin v. Barker · Mulligan v. Jordan
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he court must endeavor, if possible to arrive at the intention of the parties to the original deed by which the restrictive covenant was created ... The intention of the parties must be determined from the language of the covenant itself considered in connection with the surrounding circumstances at the time the covenant was made; * * * or, as it is sometimes said, from the language of the covenant itself considered in the light of the entire context of the instrument containing it. (Citations omitted and emphasis added.)”
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.