Schmitt v. Hager’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 1989
13 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 Duxbury v. Boice · Brasie v. Minneapolis Brewing Co. · Morrill v. Little Falls Manufacturing Co. · First National Bank v. Strait · Humphrey v. Carpenter
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But the defense of laches is not, like the statute of limitations, .exclusively a matter of time, for it is purely an equitable defense, .based upon grounds of public policy, which require, for the peace of society, the discouragement of stale demands, and is addressed to the Round judicial discretion of the court, under the facts of each particular case,””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sweet v. Lowry
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.