Hyder v. Brenton’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2008
22 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 Montoya v. Barreras · Birtrong v. Coronado Building Corp. · Northcutt v. McPherson · Garry v. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co. · Price v. Johnson
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In determining whether restrictive covenants will be enforced as written, courts are guided by certain general rules of construction, which we now summarize. When the covenant is subject to ambiguity, the restrictive covenants will be resolved in favor of the free enjoyment of the property and against the restriction. Restrictions on land use will not be read into covenants by implication. Restrictive covenants must be considered reasonably, though strictly, so that “illogical, unnatural or strained construction” will not be affected. Finally, words in a restrictive covenant must be given their ordinary and intended meaning. [Citations omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rusanowski v. Gurule
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.