85 Ill. App. 3d 574 - Schroeder v. Schlueter’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably 144 Ill. App. 3d 934 - Nancy's Home of Stuffed Pizza, Inc. v. Cirrincione (1986), 136 Ill. App. 3d 561 - Harrington v. Kay (1985)
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 21 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 12 Ill. 2d 547 - Pyle v. Ferrell · 73 Ill. App. 3d 743 - Del Bianco v. American Motorists Insurance · 76 Ill. 2d 385 - Thurston v. State Board of Elections · 61 Ill. App. 3d 765 - Beckham v. Tate · 342 Ill. App. 258 - Johnson v. Whitney Metal Tool 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Laches] has been aptly referred to as the doctrine of stale demand and is grounded in the equitable notion that courts are reluctant to come to the aid of a party who has knowingly slept on his rights under circumstances where he might have earlier asserted such rights in the exercise of due diligence. This lack of diligence must also be reflected in some resulting inequity to the adverse party such that it would be unfair to allow maintenance of the claim, [and] in cases where property is in dispute, because of some change in the condition or relation of the property and the parties.”
2 later decisions 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.