Ellis v. Stickney’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently June 1991 · most notably 348 F. Supp. 61 - Belcher v. Birmingham Trust National Bank (1968), Merrill v. Merrill (1954)
55 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 Craig v. Root · Morgan Hill Paving Co. v. Fonville · Sandlin v. Anders · Oxford v. Estes · Van Antwerp v. Van Antwerp
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Mere delay which has resulted in no disadvantage to another or that has not operated to bring about changes in conditions or circumstances, in consequence of which ‘there can be no longer a safe determination of the controversy,’ will not [amount to laches so as] to bar complainant’s right or remedy.””
2 later decisions 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.