Cottrell v. Watkins’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 1929
1 district · 9 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 Nelson v. Carrington · Coles' Adm'r v. Ballard · Brown v. Mott · Foster's curator v. Rison · Chester v. . Dorr
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Inasmuch, therefore, as the plaintiffs’ right to maintain this suit was not barred by the statute of limitations, ‘it follows, as a necessary consequence, that laches and lapse of time constitute no such bar.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gay v. Havermale
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.