Phillips v. Schwartz’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2002
12 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 Murphy v. Carron · Sanders v. Dixon · South Shore Homes Ass'n v. Holland Holiday's · LoPiccolo v. LoPiccolo · Hanna v. Nowell
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 terms used will be given their ordinary and popular meaning and if the language is plain, no construction is necessary. 2. When the meaning of the terms is open to construction, they will be strictly construed. 3. The restrictions will not be extended by implication. 4. Any reasonable doubt will be resolved in favor of free use of land.”
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.