King v. Ebrens’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2014
12 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 Darnell v. Target Stores · Gaboury v. Ireland Road Grace Brethren, Inc. · Wischmeyer v. Finch · 158 Ind. App. 43 - Bob Layne Contractor, Inc. v. Buennagel · Young v. Butts
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.
“Restrictive covenants are generally disfavored in the law and will be strictly construed by the courts, which resolve all doubts in favor of the free use of property and against restrictions. Nevertheless, restrictive covenants are a form of express contract recognized under the law. The construction of a written contract containing restrictive covenants is a question of law for which summary judgment is particularly appropriate. >”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is well settled that arguments not presented to the trial court on summary judgment are waived on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If the language is clear and unambiguous, we give that language its 'plain, usual, and ordinary meaning.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Dawson
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.