Connin v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 177 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 190 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably Daugherty v. Central Trust Co. (1986), Loudermill v. Cleveland Board of Education (1988)
3 federal appellate · 177 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 107 Ohio App. 440 - Smith v. Smith · Kinney v. Mathias · 24 Ohio App. 2d 149 - Beiter v. Beiter
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 190 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`an omission to assert a right for an unreasonable and unexplained length of time, under circumstances prejudicial to the adverse party.'”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Delay in asserting a right does not of itself constitute laches, and in order to successfully invoke the equitable doctrine of laches it must be shown that the person for whose benefit the doctrine will operate has been materially prejudiced by the delay of the person asserting his claim.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because respondents allege in their complaints that they had no chance to respond, the District Court erred in dismissing for failure to state a claim. The judgment of the Court of Appeals is affirmed, and the case is remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.”
1 later decision 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.