Hall v. Trubey’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2019
21 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 Pickett v. Paine · Yablon v. Metropolitan Life Insurance · McClure v. Davidson · Guhl v. Tuggle · 225 Ga. App. 78 - Altama Delta Corp. v. Howell
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may bar a complaint based on laches when the lapse of time and the claimant’s neglect in asserting rights results in prejudice to the adverse party. Whether laches should apply depends on a consideration of the particular circumstances, including such factors as the length of the delay in the claimant’s assertion of rights, the sufficiency of the excuse for the delay, the loss of evidence on disputed matters, the opportunity for the claimant to have acted sooner, and whether the claimant or the adverse party possessed the property during the delay. ... [L] aches is not merely a question of time, but principally the question of the inequity in permitting the claim to be enforced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Waller v. Golden
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.