Jones v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2005
13 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 Hutchinson v. Ulrich · McMurtry v. Phillips Investment Co. · Hays v. St. Paul Methodist Episcopal Church · Karasek v. Peier · Eckhart v. Irons
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.
“When an owner is proceeding to construct a building upon his land which in some measure enhances the value, usefulness, and enjoyment of the land, and the same is not a nuisance, as the allegations of this complaint fairly construed show, his motives cannot be assigned as a legal reason for preventing such construction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]t seems to be well settled law that words in a deed of conveyance restricting the use of the property by the grantee are to be construed strictly against the grantor and those claiming the benefit of such restrictions, and will not be extended beyond the clear meaning of the language so used.”
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.