Penn Mut Life Ins Co v. City of Austin’s Empirical Analysis
168 U.S. 685 · 1898
Citation profile
75 federal appellate · 29 district · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 288 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2016 · most notably Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill (1978), Diaz v. United States (1912)
75 federal appellate · 29 district · 73 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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 Galliher v. Cadwell · Hammond v. Hopkins · Speidel v. Henrici · Badger v. Badger
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 288 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“equitable relief cannot be afforded without doing injustice.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The eases are many in which this defense has been invoked and considered. It is true that by reason of their differences of fact no one case becomes an exact precedent for another, yet a uniform principle pervades them all. They proceed on the assumption that the party to whom laches is imputed has knowledge of his rights, and an ample opportunity to establish them in the proper forum; that by reason of his delay the adverse party has good reason to believe that the alleged rights are worthless, or have been abandoned;, and that because of the change in condition or relations during this period of delay, it would be an injustice to the latter to permit him to now assert them. * * * “But it is unnecessary to multiply cases. They all proceed upon the theory that laches is not, like limitation, a mere matter of time, but principally a question of'the inequity of permitting the claim to be enforced — an inequity founded upon some change in the condition or relations of the property or the parties.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“real and colorable, not fictitious and fraudulent”
3 later decisions 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.