Chuba v. Glasgow’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 1990 · most notably Murphey v. Gray (1958), Montoya v. Barreras (1970)
24 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 Barton v. Moline Properties, Inc. · 111 Ind. App. 212 - Sorrentino v. Cunningham · Swain v. Maxwell · Ault v. Shipley · Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Drauver
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * [W]here changes in the surrounding area are so radical as to frustrate the original purposes and intention of the parties to such restrictions, that they can no longer be carried out, and this without fault or neglect of him who seeks to be relieved by a court of equity from their observance, such restrictive covenants should be extinguished. In such instance the doctrine, as expressed in the maxim lex non cogit ad impossibilia, would apply; * * *."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mason v. Farmer“* * The area to the north, east, and south is unrestricted and businesses of various kinds have been established thereon; but these changes, outside the restricted area, do not defeat the purposes of the restrictions. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fox v. Miner
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.