Hiner v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 2024
10 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 Waikiki Malia Hotel, Inc. v. Kinkai Properties Limited Partnership · Pool v. Denbeck · Dickstein v. Williams · King v. Kugler · 5 Haw. App. 336 - DeMund v. Lum
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.
“[W]hen construing a restrictive covenant, the parties' intentions are normally determined from the language of the deed.... Moreover, substantial doubt or ambiguity is resolved against the person seeking its enforcement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“This eleventh-hour change demonstrates that the `ambiguity' in this case stems less from bona fide doubt in the meaning of the covenant terms than from creative, if somewhat disingenuous, appellate advocacy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fong v. Hashimoto“[t]he fundamental rule in construing restrictive covenants is the intention of the parties as shown by the covenant governs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sandomire v. Brown
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.