Jackson v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably 121 Wash. 2d 810 - Mains Farm Homeowners Ass'n v. Worthington (1993), Hill v. Community of Damien of Molokai (1996)
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 City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Shelley v. Kraemer · Sullivan v. United States · Jim McNeff, Inc. v. Todd · J. T. Hobby & Son, Inc. v. Family Homes of Wake County, Inc.
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.
“[a]lthough the commercial nature of a group may have some relevance, that characteristic is not determinative in this case. It is the purpose and method of operation which serves to distinguish the proposed residential use of the home from that normally incident to a purely commercial operation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the granting or refusing of injunction rests to some extent within the sound discretion of the trial court, and its judgment ... will not be disturbed unless it can be said the court abused its discretion, or that the judgment rendered is clearly against the weight of the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“All lots in the tract shall be known and described as residential lots. * * * No structure shall be erected, altered, placed or permitted to remain on any building plot other than one detached single-family dwelling.”
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.