Croyle v. Croyle’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Sinclair v. Weber (1954), Hauver v. Dorsey (1962)
49 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 Gerald v. City of Boston · Boehm v. Boehm · Adams v. Adams · Westco-Chippewa Pump Co. v. Delaware Electric & Supply Co. · Simms v. Simms
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The very heart of the doctrine of estoppel, through laches, is that the defendant’s alleged change of position for the worse must have been induced by, or resulted from, the conduct, misrepresentation or silence of the plaintiff.” (Page 136 of 184 Md.; page 379 of 40 A. 2d).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pryor v. Pryor
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.