Loeb v. Watkins’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2011
2 district · 19 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 Kelly v. Philadelphia · Price v. Anderson · Siciliano v. Misler · Peters v. Davis · Ratkovich v. Randell Homes, 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The majority opinion prostitutes equity jurisdiction. As a general rule, equity will not enforce a restrictive covenant which is of no benefit to the dominant tenement or is an absurd, futile, and ineffective attempt to achieve a desired end. (Citations omitted.) Furthermore, equity will deny relief to a party seeking enforcement of a restrictive covenant if the harm done by granting the injunction will be disproportionate to the benefit secured thereby. ... It is important to note that these equitable principles evolved from the legal maxim that restrictions on the use of the land are not favored by the law because they constitute an interference with the free use and alienability of real property. 240 A.2d at 517 (emphasis supplied) .”
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.