Stephl v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Osius v. Barton (1933), Osius v. Barton (1933)
68 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 Moore v. Stevens · Bacon v. Sandberg · Bowen v. Smith · Scharer v. Pantler · Mayes v. Hale
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when the restriction applies to the location of buildings to be erected on the land, and such restrictions are carried in all deeds with a view to preserve the symmetry, beauty, and general good of all interested in the scheme of development.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The benefit of ... restrictive covenants inures to each purchaser, irrespective of the time of purchase.”
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.