Stiger v. Bent’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 1950 · most notably Dixmoor Golf Club Inc. v. Evans (1927), Coryell v. Klehm (1895)
2 federal appellate · 43 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 Olds v. Cummings · Smith v. . Kidd · Insurance Company v. Eldredge · Smith v. McConnell · Barbour v. Scottish-American Mortgage Co.
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ A court of equity applies the doctrine of laches in denial of relief prayed where the statutory period of limitations has not expired, only where, from all the circumstances in evidence, to grant the relief to which the complainant would otherwise be entitled will, presumptively, be inequitable and unjust, because of the delay to the defendants.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.