Riss v. Angel’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Hollis v. Garwall, Inc. (1999), Hollis v. Garwall, Inc. (1999)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 81 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 125 Wash. 2d 337 - Mt. Park Homeowners Ass'n, Inc. v. Tydings · 121 Wash. 2d 810 - Mains Farm Homeowners Ass'n v. Worthington · 115 Wash. 2d 148 - Schmidt v. Cornerstone Investments, Inc. · 34 Cal. 2d 442 - Hannula v. Hacienda Homes, Inc. · 114 Wash. 2d 1004 - In Re Estate of Foster
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he court will place `special emphasis on arriving at an interpretation that protects the homeowners' collective interests.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]his question depends upon the extent of the relief afforded the parties.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]here construction of restrictive covenants is necessitated by a dispute not involving the maker of the covenants, but rather among homeowners in a subdivision governed by the restrictive covenants, rules of strict construction against the grantor or in the favor of the free use of land are inapplicable.”
4 later decisions 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.