Spies v. Demayo’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably 59 Ill. App. 3d 573 - Shannon v. Stookey (1978), 305 Ill. App. 3d 267 - Cameron v. Bogusz (1999)
2 federal appellate · 27 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 Ambarann Corp. v. Old Ben Coal Corp. · Caraway v. Sly · Kelly v. Lehmann · Swinson v. Sodaman · 83 Ind. App. 66 - Michaels v. Pontius
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As so pertinently observed in McDearmon v. Burnham, 158 Ill. 55 , referring to delay covering a period of fourteen years, `When a court of equity is asked to lend its aid in the enforcement of a demand that has become stale, there must be some cogent and weighty reasons presented why it has been permitted to become so. Good faith, conscience and reasonable diligence of the party seeking its relief are the elements that call a court of equity into activity. In the absence of these elements the court remains passive, and declines to extend its relief or aid. It has always been the policy to discountenance laches and neglect.' Death has silenced many of the active participants in the transactions leading to the execution of the deed....”
1 later decision 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.