Spradling v. Hawk’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 1973
4 federal appellate · 17 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 Harris v. Defenbaugh · Olson v. Peterson · O'Keefe v. Behrens · Dusenbery v. Bidwell · Graden v. Mais
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Laches does not grow out of the mere lapse of time and will not defeat an action, unless there has been some change in the condition or relations of the property or the parties which would prejudice the rights of the adverse party.” (Syl. ¶ 4.)”
2 later decisions 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.