Keller v. Branton’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 2023
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 48 Ill. App. 3d 152 - Moore v. McDaniel · 22 Ariz. App. 223 - Riley v. Stoves · Fuqua v. Hanson · Papanikolas Bros. Enterprises v. Sugarhouse Shopping Center Associates · Kindler v. Anderson
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so great, or so fundamental or radical as to neutralize the benefits of the restriction to the point of defeating the purpose of the covenant. In other words, the violations must be so substantial as to support a finding that the usefulness of the covenant has been destroyed, or that the covenant has become valueless and onerous to the property owners.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[flor a change in neighborhood to justify termination of an equitable servitude, such change must be of a radical and permanent nature.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where a violation is immaterial, minor, unoffensive, or remote from the land, no acquiescence will be presumed.”
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.