Calvat v. Juhan’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably Radke v. Union Pacific Railroad Company (1959), Mitchell v. Espinosa (1952)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 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 Waldron v. Harvey · Great West Min. Co. v. Woodmas of Alston Min. Co. · Phelan v. Roberts · Gibbons v. Hoag · J. R. Crowe Coal & Mining Co. v. Atkinson
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defendant's claim is one of legal title, and is governed by the statute of limitations. Laches apply to equitable demands. If a legal right gets into equity, the statute governs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vessels v. Hickerson“it appears to be well established that courts will not invoke equitable defenses to destroy legal rights where statutes of limitation are applicable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vessels v. Hickerson“because of laches on the part of [a defendant.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vessels v. Hickerson
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.