Stephens v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably Johnson v. Sherrer (1944), 233 Ga. App. 452 - Charter Peachford Behavioral Health System, Inc. v. Kohout. (1998)
38 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 Grant v. Hart · Crawford v. Crawford · Citizens & Southern National Bank v. Ellis · Morris v. Johnstone · Kirkley v. Sharp
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Ejquity will refuse relief ‘to one whose long delay renders the ascertainment of the truth difficult____’ An unreasonable delay until the death of essential witnesses, which practically precludes the court ‘from arriving at a safe conclusion as to the truth of the matters in controversy,’ and which ‘makes the doing of equity either doubtful or impossible, due to loss or obscuration of evidence of the transaction in issue,’ will bar the action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““If the defendant * * * shall have been guilty of a fraud by which the plaintiff shall have been debarred or deterred from his action, the period of limitation shall run only from the time of the discovery of the fraud.””
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.