94 Wis. 2d 421 - Crowley v. Knapp’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably J. T. Hobby & Son, Inc. v. Family Homes of Wake County, Inc. (1981), 137 Wis. 2d 506 - Watts v. Watts (1987)
2 federal appellate · 80 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Shelley v. Kraemer · Moore v. City of East Cleveland · Barrows v. Jackson · Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette v. Village of Whitefish Bay · 60 Wis. 2d 182 - Browndale International, Ltd. v. Board of Adjustment
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Accordingly, restrictions contained in deeds . . . must be strictly construed to favor unencumbered and free use of property.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“favors the free and unrestricted use of property.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“all doubt, under the general rule, should be resolved in favor of the free use thereof for all lawful purposes by the owner of the fee.”
2 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.