Walker v. Ellis’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 1983
6 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 Earle Improvement Co. v. Chatfield · Updegraff v. Marked Tree Lumber Co. · Griffin v. Dunn · McDonald v. Smith · Barton v. Wilson
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where there is no intervening equity which of itself requires application of doctrine of laches, a court of equity ordinarily will not divest the owner of his title to land for laches unless he fails to assert such title for a period at least equal to that fixed by the statute of limitations. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vesper v. Woolsey
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.