Stone v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
873 F.2d 620 · 1989
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Stone v. Williams (1992), Travelers Insurance v. Cuomo (1993)
13 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · United States v. Diebold, Inc. · Holmberg v. Armbrecht · Burnett v. New York Central Railroad · Levy v. Louisiana Ex Rel. Charity Hospital
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an equitable defense based on the ... maxim vigilantibus non dormientibus aequitas subvenit (equity aids the vigilant, not those who sleep on their rights).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is the reasonableness of the delay rather than the number of years that elapsed which is the focus of the [laches] inquiry.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the underlying value of the laches doctrine, as with statutes of limitations, is that of repose. Even assuming that appellant’s claims are meritorious, the availability of the laches defense represents a conclusion that the societal interest in a correct decision can be outweighed by the disruption its tardy filing would cause. Thus, courts, parties and witnesses ‘ought to be relieved of the burden of trying stale claims when a plaintiff has slept on his rights.’”
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.