Norton v. Chioda’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Central Ry. Signal Co. v. Longden (1952), Akin v. Warner (1945)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 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 Dodge v. Anna Jaques Hospital · American Waltham Watch Co. v. United States Watch Co. · Calkins v. Wire Hardware Co. · New England Awl & Needle Co. v. Marlborough Awl & Needle Co. · Payne v. R. H. White Co.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mere delay, provided it does not extend beyond the period of the statute of limitations, does not of itself amount to laches. Laches is not mere delay, but delay that works disadvantage to another”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Covidien LP v. Esch
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.