Vetzel v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2017
2 federal appellate · 20 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 Trustees of Columbia College v. Lynch · Turner v. Brocato · Osius v. Barton · Osius v. Barton · Allen v. Avondale Co.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"For we are not here concerned with a suit at law on the covenant; we have here a suit, in equity, by remote grantees against other grantees from a common grantor, to be relieved of restrictions as to use placed upon their land by their common grantor for the benefit of all of the grantees of such common grantor, and as a part of a general scheme of development and improvement of the lots owned by her and an adjoining land owner." (Emphasis supplied.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““As to their second contention respecting the change in the character of the neighborhood, this was essentially a question of fact that was determined adversely to their contention by the trier of the facts, and we see no reason to disturb his findings in this respect — particularly in view of the fact that the only two changes (the grocery store and church, referred to above) had taken place before the Vet-zels acquired title to their lots.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Where grantor, and an adjoining landowner entered into recorded agreement restricting the use of their property, and the restriction was a part of a general plan to segregate business properties in one area and to restrict the remainder of the property owned by the parties to residential purposes, such restrictions were favored by public policy and would be protected by courts of equity.””
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.