Staley v. Staley’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably 57 Md. App. 190 - Finch v. Hughes Aircraft Co. (1984), Buxton v. Buxton (2001)
2 district · 37 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 Williams v. State of North Carolina · Sherrer v. Sherrer · Coe v. Coe · Slansky v. State · Parker v. Board of Election Supervisors
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The doctrine of laches is an application of the general principles of estoppel, and consists of two elements — negligence or lack of diligence on the part of the plaintiff in failing to assert his right, and prejudice or injury to the defendant. Parker v. Board of Elec. Sup., 230 Md. 126 , 186 A. 2d 195 ; Croyle v. Croyle, 184 Md. 126 , 40 A. 2d 374 . As set out in Croyle\ ‘The very heart of the doctrine of estoppel, through laches, is that the defendant’s alleged change of position for the worse must have been induced by, or resulted from, the conduct, misrepresentation or silence of the plaintiff.’ ””
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.