Robertson v. Nichols’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably 113 Cal. App. 4th 549 - Van't Rood v. County of Santa Clara (2003), 140 Cal. App. 3d 964 - Taormina Theosophical Community, Inc. v. Silver (1983)
28 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 Werner v. Graham · Wing v. Forest Lawn Cemetery Assn. · Marra v. Aetna Construction Co. · Fairchild v. Raines · Downs v. Kroeger
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But, if the original purpose of the covenant can still be realized, it will be enforced even though the unrestricted use of the property would be more profitable to its owner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wolff v. Fallon
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.