Franklin v. Spadafora’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Freeman v. Planning Board (1995), 34 Mass. App. Ct. 452 - Noble v. Murphy (1993)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 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 Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · City of New Orleans v. Dukes · Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell · Village of Belle Terre v. Boraas · Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Reasonable restraints on alienation may be enforced . . . The following factors, if found, tend to support a conclusion that the restraint is reasonable: “1. the one imposing the restraint has some interest in land which he is seeking to protect by the enforcement of the restraint; 2. the restraint is limited in duration; 3. the enforcement of the restraint accomplishes a worthwhile purpose; 4. the type of conveyances prohibited are ones not likely to be employed to any substantial degree by the one restrained; 5. the number of persons to whom alienation is prohibited is small ...” Restatement of Property §406 comment i (1944). None of these factors is determinative, nor is the list exhaustive. Each case must be examined in light of all the circumstances.”
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.