Hrisomalos v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2017
11 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 Cowling v. Colligan · Wischmeyer v. Finch · 101 Ind. App. 306 - Bachman v. Colpaert Realty Corp. · Donavan v. Ivy Knoll Apartments Partnership · 83 Ind. App. 658 - Schwartz v. Holycross
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) the location of the objecting landowners relative to both the property upon which the nonconforming use is sought to be enjoined and the property upon which a nonconforming use has been allowed, 2) the similarity of the prior nonconforming use to the nonconforming use sought to be enjoined, and 3) the frequency of prior nonconforming uses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“are so radical in nature that the original purpose of the covenant has been defeated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“when 'the restrictions are unambiguous and do not violate public policy'”
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.