Shaver v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2018
10 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 Shelley v. Kraemer · Regents of the University of California v. Bakke · J. T. Hobby & Son, Inc. v. Family Homes of Wake County, Inc. · City of White Plains v. Ferraioli · Southampton Civic Club v. Couch
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.
“The covenant in question provides that all lots shall be used for residential purposes only and states that a “residence shall be construed to be a single family dwelling.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the plain and unambiguous purpose expressed in [the covenant quoted above] is to restrict the use of the property to a single family residence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“persons related by blood, marriage or adoption.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. Williams
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.