Dickins v. Stiles’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 state decisions

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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The above described premises shall thereafter be used for agricultural and residential purposes only and in conformity with the prevailing zoning regulations pertaining to the area, unless the area, including the premises above described, is hereafter officially zoned to permit other uses of the above described property. This covenant shall be a covenant running with the land.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dickins v. Stiles

2. “Mr. and Ms. Average Insured would not understand that when they were using their property as they believed they had every right to do and were sued by a neighbor asserting violation of some ambiguous restriction that could easily be read to allow their activities on their land, their own activities would somehow have triggered the title company policy exclusion [quoted above].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dickins v. Stiles

3. “[a]ny law, ordinance or governmental regulation (including but not limited to building and zoning ordinances) restricting or regulating or prohibiting the occupancy, use or enjoyment of the land, ... or the effect of any violation of any such law, ordinance or governmental regulation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dickins v. Stiles