Stevens v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably 57 Md. App. 190 - Finch v. Hughes Aircraft Co. (1984), Ross v. State Board of Elections (2005)
40 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 Brashears v. Collison · Hamilton v. Thirston · Wiggins v. State · Semmes v. Worthington · Rettaliata v. Sullivan
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The authorities indicate that even when the remedy for a claimed right is only in equity the period of limitations most nearly apposite at law will be invoked by an equity court, provided there is not present a more compelling equitable reason — such as fraud or other inequitable conduct which would cause injustice if the bar were interposed — why the action should not be barred. [Citations omitted] * * * Judge Henderson, for the Court, said in Berman v. Leckner, 188 Md. 321 , 328: ‘There is no doubt that limitations will apply by analogy, to proceedings in equity as well as to actions at law, particularly where the jurisdiction is concurrent.’ ””
3 later decisions 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.