Algee v. Hren’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lorang v. Fortis Insurance · Montanans for Justice: Vote No on CI-98 Not in Montana: Citizens Against CI-97 & Property Owners Against I-154 v. State Ex Rel. McGrath · Anderson v. Stokes · Shimsky v. Valley Credit Union · Castillo v. Franks
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.
“denies relief to a claimant who has unreasonably delayed or been negligent in asserting a claim, when the delay or negligence has prejudiced the party against whom relief is sought.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To determine whether laches applies, a court must find: (1) the party against whom the defense is asserted lacked diligence in asserting a claim; and (2) that lack of diligence resulted in prejudice to the party asserting the defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The purpose of laches is to discourage stale demands by the court refusing to interfere where there has been gross laches in prosecuting rights, or where long acquiescence in assertion of adverse rights has occurred.”
1 later decision 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.