54 So. 2d 433 - Ballinger v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently January 2006 · most notably Tombigbee Electric Power Ass'n v. Gandy (1953), Hagan v. Sabal Palms, Inc. (1966)
1 federal appellate · 41 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 Trustees of Columbia College v. . Thacher · Moore v. Stevens · City of Miami Beach v. State Ex Rel. Lear · Holmes v. Kilgore · Rogers v. Zwolak
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the law favors the free and untrammeled use of real property. Restrictions in conveyances on the fee are regarded unfavorably and are, therefore, strictly construed, but where the intention is clear, the Courts will enforce such restrictions if not unreasonable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barrett v. Leiher
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.