Ragland v. Overton’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2018
20 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 Settegast v. Foley Bros. Dry Goods Co. · Wood v. Stehrer · Johnson v. Poteet · Clifton George Co. v. Great Southern Life Ins. 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In this country[,] real estate is an article of commerce. The uses to which it should be devoted are constantly changing as the business of the country increases, and as its new wants are developed. Hence, it is contrary to the well-recognized business policy of the country to tie up real estate where the fee is conveyed with restrictions and prohibitions as to its use; and, hence, in the construction of deeds containing restrictions and prohibitions as to the use of the property by a grantee, all doubts should, as a general rule, be resolved in favor of a free use of property and against restrictions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““We think the language of the restrictive clause, when considered alone, is sufficient to prohibit the use of the lots for other than residential - purposes and to prevent the construction of any dwellings thereon which cost less than $1,500 each.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hoover v. Waggoman
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.