Collum v. Neuhoff’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2008
14 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 Strunk v. United States · Cowling v. Colligan · Hooper v. Lottman · Greenway Parks Home Owners Ass'n v. City of Dallas · City of Deer Park v. State Ex Rel. Shell Oil 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Texas authorities have long recognized the distinction between “real” and “personal” covenants. Those in the first category are said to run with the land at law, while a “personal” covenant is often referred to as an equitable “reservation” or “servitude” which may be binding on successors in interest even though the traditional legal test of Spencer’s case ... are not met.”
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.