705 So. 2d 1198 - MacKey v. Armstrong’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 385 So. 2d 245 - General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. Meyers · Nolan v. Commonwealth Nat. Life Ins. Co. · 98 So. 2d 280 - Vernon v. Allphin · Anderson v. Courtney · 560 So. 2d 115 - Prien Oaks Homeowners Ass'n v. Mocklin
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To construe that reference to amendments as empowering the burdening of all lots in a subdivision with new restrictions upon approval of the owners of a only a simple majority of the land area affected would be to make a major change in the law on scant authority. There would seem to be little policy reason to move in that direction, policy being more generally toward free use of property and limiting private land use controls. It would be more consistent with that history and policy to construe Article 780 to refer only to amendments that lessen the restrictions on property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[d]oubt as to the existence, validity, or extent of building restrictions is resolved in favor of the unrestricted use of the immovable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]ermination and amendment of building restrictions are generally different and distinct matters.”
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.