Self v. Self’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Cochran v. Bentley (2007), Raymond v. Raymond (2001)
33 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 Rad-Razorback Ltd. Partnership v. B.G. Coney Co. · Allen v. Kizer · Anadarko Petroleum Co. v. Venable · DeClerk v. Tribble · Peterson v. Worthen Bank & Trust Co., NA
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The doctrine of laches is based on a number of equitable principles that are premised on some detrimental change in position made in reliance upon the action or inaction of the other party. Anadarko Petroleum v. Venable, 312 Ark. 330 , 850 S.W.2d 302 (1993). It is based on the assumption that the party to whom lach-es is imputed has knowledge of his rights and the opportunity to assert them, that by reason of his delay some adverse party has good reason to believe those rights are worthless or have been abandoned, and that because of a change of conditions during this delay it would be unjust to the latter to permit him to assert them. Briarwood Apartments v. Lieblong, 12 Ark. App. 94 , 671 S.W.2d 207 (1984).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McMahen v. Robinson“We have stated that judgments in matrimonial cases should be more stable than in others, because matrimonial status draws with it so many collateral rights and interests of third persons. However, we have also held that when divorces have a “mail-order” appearance, we shall not hesitate to set them aside, even though the divorced party remarries in the 'meantime, as we cannot permit such frauds to be practiced upon the courts of this state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“|ROur general rule is that a party who has knowledge of a judgment against himself or herself is required to exercise reasonable diligence in seeking to have it set aside, and an unexcused delay can justify a court in refusing to grant relief prayed for. O’Neal v. B.F. Goodrich Rubber Co., 204 Ark. 371 , 162 S.W.2d 52 (1942).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McMahen v. Robinson
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.