Applegate v. Colucci’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 2025
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 Wachowski v. Beke · Johnson v. Dawson · Stewart v. Jackson · Holliday v. Crooked Creek Villages Homeowners Assoc., Inc. · Grandview Lot Owners Ass'n, Inc. v. Harmon
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“instructive that the covenants [did] not by express terms prohibit the short-term rental of the lots in the neighborhood. The covenants at issue [did] not contain any direct and definite prohibition against Colucei's nightly or weekly rental of its property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“No commercial business shall be carried on upon any parcel[.] Nothing herein contained shall prevent the leasing or renting of property or structures for residential use[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Construction of the terms of a written contract is a pure question of law for the court, and we conduct a de novo review of the trial court's conclusions in that regard.”
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.