322 So. 2d 257 - Smith v. DeVincent’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2016
12 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 Salerno v. De Lucca · Jones v. Park Lane for Convalescents, Inc. · Timmerman v. Gabriel · Crawford v. Boyd · State v. Texas Gulf, Inc.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[W]e also take note that occasionally they [mobile homes] may be immobilized on a particular location, but nonetheless, remain capable of being mobilized without too much effort and expense. They are not so much `constructed' or `assembled' even in a small part on the location the owner desires but are `connected' to sewerage and utilities."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"While all restrictions are sometimes loosely referred to as building restrictions, it should be noted that restrictions generally fall into two classes: a `building' restriction, which limits the type and size of structures which may be placed on the property, and a `use' restriction, which limits the uses which may be made of permitted structures."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If this subdivider had intended to prohibit the placement of trailers (or mobile homes), temporary structures, even barns, sheds or outbuildings on the subdivided property, as well as to prohibit their `use' as a residence, the restrictions should have and could have been phrased so as to expressly and unequivocally provide. Presented here is an example of imprecise draftsmanship and our ruling herein should serve as notice to those who would restrict either or both the structures on their property and the uses which may be made of permitted structures to be precise in drafting restrictive covenants.”
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.