Lightsey v. Lightsey’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2006 · most notably Rubisoff v. Rubisoff (1961), 81 So. 2d 734 - Trueman Fertilizer Co. v. Allison (1955)
29 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he true test to apply laches is whether or not the delay has resulted in injury, embarrassment, or disadvantage to any person and particularly to the person against whom relief is sought.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“To permit such a contention to prevail would be to chloroform the element of right and justice on which all such controversies rest and glorify any technical defense offered to defeat it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“makes no claim that he was adversely affected by the delay and is as silent as the sphinx as to his ability to pay.”
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.