Munson v. Berdon’s Empirical Analysis

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13 state decisions

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Consequently it is easily seen that both restrictions allow professional signs. And what type of `professional sign' could have been contemplated by the drafters of the building restrictions other than a professional sign to advertise home occupations? "In deciding whether or not the building restrictions do prevent a professional man such as Dr. Wax from having an office in his home, the following basic principles of interpretation should be applied: `* * * "Restrictive covenants are to be construed most strictly against the grantor and persons seeking to enforce them, and liberally in favor of the grantee, all doubts being resolved in favor of a free use of property and against restrictions.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wax v. Woods · 259 So. 2d 398 - Fuller v. Hill Properties, Inc.

2. “In order to arrive at the plan of subdivision, we must take what we find on the date of the sale as contained in each act of sale.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 102 So. 2d 554 - Herzberg v. Harrison