Tolar v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis

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11 state decisions

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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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"It becomes apparent from the facts that the appellant Ayers, as Trustee, at the time he received his title had constructive notice if not implied actual notice of the restrictive covenants; constructive notice by reason of the recordation of the agreement of November 13, 1950, and implied actual notice because of the statement contained in their deeds of conveyance. Allen v. Avondale Co., 135 Fla. 6 , 185 So. 137 ; Vetzel v. Brown, Fla. 1956, 86 So.2d 138 . * * * * * * "Appellants have strongly urged in their brief and before the Court that no privity or contract existed between the present owners of properties in the subdivision in question and the makers of the original agreement imposing the restrictive covenants. This contention appears to have been answered adverse to the appellants by the holding of the Supreme Court of Florida in the case of Osius v. Barton, 109 Fla. 556 , 147 So. 862 , 88 A.L.R. 394 , and recently affirmed in Vetzel v. Brown, supra."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Batman v. Creighton