Ross' Estate v. Abrams’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 1980
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 Elwell & Heist v. The Universalist General Convention · Spalding v. St. Joseph's Industrial School · 57 Tex. Civ. App. 646 - St. Mary's Orphan Asylum v. Masterson · Pena Y Vidaurri's Estate v. Bruni · Franks v. Chapman
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.
““ ‘Laches, in legal significance, is not mere delay but delay that works a disadvantage to another. So long as parties are in the same condition, it matters little whether one presses a right promptly or slowly, within the limits allowed by law; but when knowing his rights, he takes no steps to enforce them until the condition of the other party has, in good faith, become so changed that he cannot be restored to his former state, if the right be then enforced, delay becomes inequitable, and operates as estoppel against the assertion of the right’.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Culver v. Pickens“and the admission to probate. The presentation to probate precedes admission to probate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.