Wells v. Carson’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
4 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2007 · most notably Advest, Inc. v. Wachtel (1995), Zapolsky v. Sacks (1983)
4 district · 25 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 Freund v. Burns · Mills v. Mills · Potter v. Prudential Insurance · Sears v. Howe · Blakeman v. Fonda
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Statute of Limitations creates a defense to an action. It does not erase the debt. Hence the defense can be lost by an unequivocal acknowledgment of the debt, such as a new promise, an unqualified recognition of the debt, or a payment on account.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[l]aches in legal significance is more than mere delay[,] [i]t is delay that works a disadvantage to another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.