Heath v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably State v. Chouinard (1981), Northern Pueblos Enterprises. v. Montgomery (1982)
1 federal appellate · 57 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 34 Cal. 2d 442 - Hannula v. Hacienda Homes, Inc. · Montoya v. Barreras · Hoover v. Waggoman · 21 Ariz. App. 581 - Grossman v. Hatley · H. J. Griffith Realty Co. v. Hobbs Houses, Inc.
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“These general rules can have significance only as applied to the particular facts of the individual ease. Restrictive covenants must be considered reasonably, though strictly, and an illogical, unnatural or strained construction must be avoided. (Citation omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lockwood v. Steiner“in favor of the free enjoyment of the property and against restrictions,”
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.