Bethea v. Langford’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably 81 So. 2d 734 - Trueman Fertilizer Co. v. Allison (1955), 52 So. 2d 684 - Stephenson v. Stephenson (1951)
24 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 Geter v. Simmons · Anderson v. Northrop · Marshall v. C. S. Young Construction Co. · Walker v. Landress · Frank v. Eeles
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the delay required to render the defense of laches available `must have been such as practically to preclude the court from arriving at a safe conclusion as to the truth of the matters in controversy, and thus make the doing of equity either doubtful or impossible, as through loss or obscuration of evidence of the transaction in issue; or there must have occurred in the meantime a change in conditions that would render it inequitable to enforce the right asserted.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The true test to apply laches is whether or not the delay has resulted in injury, embarrassment, or disadvantage to any person and particularly to the person against whom relief is sought. Plaintiff in error does not contend that the delay has affected him adversely and being so, he should not be permitted to invoke it.”
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.