Traeger v. Lorenz’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 2014
6 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 25th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Cowling v. Colligan · Beaty v. Bales · Lebo v. Johnson
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) homeowners have acquiesced to such substantial violations within the restricted area as to amount to an aban donment of the covenant or a waiver of a right to enforce it; or (b) there has been such a change in the conditions in the restricted area or areas surrounding it that it is no longer possible to secure any substantial degree- of the benefits sought to be realized through the covenants.”
3 later decisions 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.