Fike v. Ruger’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 24 Del. Ch. 318 - Federal United Corp. v. Havender · Skouras v. Admiralty Enterprises, Inc. · 30 Del. Ch. 255 - Cooch v. Grier · Elster v. American Airlines
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The essential elements of laches are: (i) plaintiff must have knowledge of the claim, and (ii) there must be prejudice to the defendant arising from an unreasonable delay by plaintiff in bringing the claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cantor
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.