Watrous v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 1945 · most notably Green County v. Mary Amis Quinlan Q (1909), Rigs v. Sokol (1945)
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 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 Atlantic Dock Co. v. . Leavitt · Beal v. Chase · Gibert v. . Peteler · Linzee v. Mixer · Livingston v. Tompkins
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every owner of real property has the right so to deal with it as to restrain its use by his grantees within such limits as to prevent its appropriation to purposes which will impair the value or diminish the pleasure of the enjoyment of the land which he retains. The only restriction on this right is that it shall be exercised reasonably, with a due regard to public policy, and without creating ■any unlawful restraint of trade.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reilly v. Otto · Davison v. Taylor
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.