Stewart v. Pelt’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 1986
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 Sanders v. Flenniken · Walker-Lucas-Hudson Oil Company v. Hudson · Jones v. Morgan · Horn v. Hull · Edwards v. Swilley
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Mere lapse of time before bringing suit, without change of circumstances or in the relation of the parties, will not constitute laches. Not only must there have been unnecessary delay, but it must appear that, by reason of the delay, some change has occurred in the condition or relation of the parties to the property which would make it inequitable to enforce the claim. So long as the parties are in the same condition, a claim for land may be asserted within the time allowed by law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beshear v. Ahrens““The doctrine of laches which is a species of estoppel rests upon the principle that, if one maintains silence when in conscience he ought to speak, equity will bar him from speaking when in conscience he ought to remain silent. . . .” [ 216 Ark. at 930 , 228 S.W.2d at 67 ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beshear v. Ahrens
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.