Wilson v. Plutus Mining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
174 F. 317 · 1909
Citation profile
14 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 1944
14 federal appellate ·
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 Fisher v. Shropshire · Kelley v. Boettcher · Williams v. Neely · Slide & Spur Gold Mines v. Seymour · Brun v. Mann
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under ordinary circumstances a suit in equity will not be stayed before, and will be stayed after, the time fixed by tbe analogous limitation at law; but if unusual conditions or extraordinary circumstances make it inequitable to allow the prosecution of a suit after a briefer, or to forbid its maintenance after a longer, period than that fixed by the statute, the chancellor will not be bound by the statute, but will determine the extraordinary case in accordance with the equities which condition it. When a suit is brought within the time fixed by the analogous statute, the burden is on the defendant to show, either from, the face of the bill or by his answer, that extraordinary circumstances exist which require the application of. the doctrine of laches, and, when such a suit is brought after the statutory time has elapsed, the burden is on the complainant to show, by suitable averments in his bill, that it would be inequitable to apply it to his case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Courts of equity are not bound by, and act in analogy to, the statutes of limitation relating to actions at law of like character. When a suit is brought within the time'fixed by the analogous statute, the burden is on the defendant to show, either from the .face of the bill or by his answer, that, extraordinary circumstances exist which require the application of the doctrine of laches within that time. AVhen a suit is brought after, the statutory time, the burden is on the complainant to show in his bill, and by his proof that it would be inequitable to apply it to his case.””
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.