Culton v. Asher’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently June 1954 · most notably Barrowman Coal Corp. v. Kentland Coal & Coke Co. (1946), Wisdom's Adm'r v. Sims, Co. Supt. of Schools (1940)
61 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.
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In Chase v. Chase, 20 R. I. 203, 37 Atl. 805 , the doctrine of laches was defined as follows: ‘Laches, in legal significance, is not mere delay, but delay that works a disadvantage to another. So long as parties are in the same condition, it matters little whether one presses a right promptly or slowly within limits allowed by law; but when, knowing his rights, he takes no step to enforce them until the condition of the other party has, in good faith, become so changed that he cannot be restored to his former state, if the rights be then enforced, delay becomes inequitable and operates as estoppel against the assertion of the right. The disadvantage may come from loss of evidence, change of title, intervention of equities, and other canses; but; when a court sees negligence on one side and injury therefrom on the other, it is a ground for denial of relief.’ ””
2 later decisions 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.