Casey’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
May 1990
most recently cited
Relationships
Relies on Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Wood v. Strickland · Brundage v. United States · Brundage v. United States · Deering v. United States
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To follow plaintiff in this proposal would be to permit any claimant to avoid a full dismissal for laches simply by shaving down his full claim to any lesser period the court deemed short enough for recovery, without the showing of any ground for separating out that particular period.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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