Speidel v. Henrici’s Empirical Analysis
120 U.S. 377 · 1887
Citation profile
109 federal appellate · 33 district · 91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 358 later decisions (36 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2022 · most notably Menendez v. Holt (1888), Russell v. Todd (1940)
109 federal appellate · 33 district · 91 state decisions — followed in 28 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 Elmendorf v. Taylor · Badger v. Badger · Sullivan v. Portland and Kennebec Railroad Company · Sarah Boone v. William Chiles
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 358 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]ndependently of any statute of limitations, courts of equity uniformly decline to assist a person who has slept upon his rights, and shows no excuse for his laches in asserting them.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“length of time is no bar to a trust clearly established, and express trusts are not within the statute of limit'ations, because the possession of the trustee is presumed to be the possession of his cestui que trust.' But this rule is, in accordance with the reason on ’Vhich it .is founded, and as has been clearly pointed out by Chancellor Kent and Mr. Justice Story, súb'ect. to this qualification, that time begins to run against a trust„.as soon as it is openly disavowed by the trustee, insisting upon an adverse right and interest which is clearly and unequivocally made known to the cestui que trust; as when, for instance, such transactions take place between the trustee and the cestui .que trust as tvould in case of tenants in common amount to an ouster of one of them by the other. ... In 1;he case of an implied or constructive trust, unless there has been a fraudulent concealment of the cause of action, lapse, of time is as complete a bar in equity as at law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Riddle v. Whitehill
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.