Harrington v. Anderson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• landowner seeking to enforce restriction has burden of proving restriction was intended to benefit his land
• failure to specify benefitted land resulted in restrictions being invalidated

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Cited by

49 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Barney & Carey Co. v. Town of Milton
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1949-06-15· cited 57×
• Barton v. City of Cambridge
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1945-06-26· cited 43×
• Scaccia v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1944-11-08· cited 35×
• Staples v. Collins
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1947-06-11· cited 35×
• Guerin v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1958-04-07· cited 31×
• Sylvania Electric Products Inc. v. City of Newton
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1962-05-31· cited 25×
• Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. v. Urstadt Biddle Properties, Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2001-01-26· cited 25×
• Town of Norwood v. Norwood Civic Ass'n
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1960-03-10· cited 22×
• Markus v. Boston Edison Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1944-09-13· cited 22×
• Sorel v. Boisjolie
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1953-11-09· cited 16×
• Dirring
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1962-06-11· cited 16×
• Mayor of Beverly v. First District Court of Essex
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1951-02-14· cited 15×
• Kane v. Registrars of Voters of Fall River
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1952-03-27· cited 14×
• Town of Needham v. County Commissioners
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1949-05-02· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Berney
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1968-02-02· cited 12×
• Boston & Maine Railroad v. Construction MacHinery Corp.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1963-12-03· cited 12×
• Assessors of Boston v. World Wide Broadcasting Foundation of Massachusetts, Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1945-02-05· cited 11×
• Ide v. Bowden
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1961-02-06· cited 10×
• Meadows v. Town Clerk of Saugus
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1956-03-28· cited 9×
• Cerel v. Town of Framingham
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1961-02-06· cited 9×

Cites

37 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Samuel v. Page-Storms Drop Forge Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1922-11-27· cited 75×
• Snow v. Van Dam
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1935-07-29· cited 62×
• Howland v. Stowe
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1935-03-12· cited 60×
• McCarthy v. Lane
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1938-09-13· cited 52×
• Sprague v. Kimball
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1913-01-29· cited 50×
• In re Loeb
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1943-12-08· cited 44×
• Metropolitan Railroad v. District of Columbia
  Supreme Court· 1904-11-28· cited 42×
• Hough v. Contributory Retirement Appeal Board
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1941-09-09· cited 34×
• United States v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 1893-03-06· cited 33×
• Everett-Morgan Co. v. Boyajian Pharmacy
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1923-04-11· cited 31×
• Redden v. Ramsey
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1941-05-28· cited 27×
• Skinner v. Shepard
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1881-01-06· cited 26×
• Dana v. Wentworth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1873-01-15· cited 20×
• Pequod Realty Corp. v. Jeffries
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1943-10-29· cited 20×
• Sheehan Construction Co. v. Dudley
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1937-12-27· cited 19×
• Watts v. Watts
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1942-12-01· cited 19×
• St. Botolph Club, Inc. v. Brookline Trust Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1935-11-25· cited 18×
• Sheehan Construction Co. v. Dudley
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1937-01-26· cited 18×
• Ward v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1938-03-01· cited 18×
• City of Boston v. Lynch
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1939-11-07· cited 18×

Other cases named Harrington v. Anderson

2 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Harrington v. Anderson
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1913-01-13· cited 6×
• Harrington v. Anderson
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1913-01-13· cited 5×