348 So. 2d 454 - Cox v. Walter’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 1998
6 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 Bear v. Bernstein · Springdale Gayfer's Store Co. v. DH Holmes Co., Ltd. · Kennedy v. Henley · Hoffman v. Tacon
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the language of the restriction is clear and unambiguous, it will, of course, be given its manifest meaning, but its construction will not be extended by implication or include anything not plainly prohibited and all doubts and ambiguities must be resolved against the party seeking enforcement. Bear v. Bernstein, 251 Ala. 230 , 36 So.2d 483 (1948); Springdale Gayfer’s Store Co., Inc. v. D.H. Holmes Co., Ltd., 281 Ala. 267 , 201 So.2d 855 (1967). Restrictions against the free use and enjoyment of property are not favored in law and such restrictions are to be strictly construed. Kennedy v. Henley, 293 Ala. 657 , 309 So.2d 435 (1975).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Waldrop v. Welch
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.