Calkin v. Hudson’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2001
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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 Malone v. Young · Drenning v. Board of Commissioners · Hirt v. Bucklin State Bank · Richards v. Tiernan · Farmers State Bank ex rel. Johnson v. Mitchell
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Where the statute of limitations is not an absolute bar to the enforcement of stale demands, the doctrine of laches as a principle of equity may frequently be invoked with equal effect. Laches exist when there is undue delay in the assertion of a legal right before a tribunal competent to enforce it. Lapse of time alone does not constitute laches ...; but if such delay has misled other parties to their prejudice the bar of laches may be invoked...." (p. 318.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Peters v. Weber““Actions for the recovery of real property, or for the determination of any adverse claim or interest therein, can only be brought within the periods hereinafter prescribed, after the cause of action shall have accrued, and at no time thereafter: “Fourth. An action for the recovery of real property not hereinbefore provided for, within fifteen years.””
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.