White’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
12 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Wesch v. Folsom (1993), II v. Microsoft Corporation
12 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 Reynolds v. Sims · Thornburg v. Gingles · Costello v. United States · Middlesex County Sewerage Authority v. National Sea Clammers Ass'n · Triangle Improvement Council v. Ritchie
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Laches imposes on the defendant the ultimate burden of proving '(1) lack of diligence by the party against whom the defense is asserted, and (2) prejudice to the party asserting the defense.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f we affirm the district court’s order, the Board will be required to reapportion itself this year and it will probably be required to do so again next year, when the results of the 1990 census are available. We believe that two reappor-tionments within a short period of two years would greatly prejudice the County and its citizens by creating instability and dislocation in the electoral system and by imposing great financial and logistical burdens.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he equitable balancing of a plaintiff's delay with prejudice to a defendant is primarily left to the sound discretion of the trial court, and we may not reverse unless it is so clearly wrong as to amount to an abuse of discretion”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Steves & Sons, Inc. v. Jeld-Wen, Inc. · Center, Incorporated Steven Nielsen Raymond Pryor Seastrom Associates Ltd Chris Campbell Denise Davenport Sara Cheeseman Ronald Rodjenski Harold Phillips Matthew W. O'Neill Robert Weinke Idy Klein David Jaffee Avi Mandel South Dakota Association of Plumbing, Heating and Cooling Contractors Johnnie Moon Robert Lee Colebank Bryan K. Manson Fred Luce Edward Michael O'Brien Golf O'Brien Company Cynthia M. Aikens Clair Falgoust Carlton Falgoust Manual Knight Webster T. Knight James Rudasil Aubrey Bernard Geraldine Guice William Brand Pryor Pacific Coast Systems Teri Gordon Michael Shevekov Martin Hagan Elham Shirzai Dawn Brandt Donald J. Gianni Mario Traffichini John F. Siegenthaler Caren M. McCall Larry A. Penix Pryce M. Haynes, II John K. Heidlage Ryan D. Reynolds Daniel C. Ray Gti System Integrators Tziri Fine Derek M. Prentice Kurt C. Carter James T. Brems Tim Appelgate Julie Tinkham Steven Master Thomas Infante Turner Corporation John A. Supernovich Marlene K. Supernovich Sherwood Automatik Design, Incorporated State of West Virginia, Ex Rel. Darrell v. McGraw Jr., Attorney General Netscape Communications Corporation Sun Microsystems Be Incorporated burst.com, Incorporated Ivax Corporation Keith Cooper Conway, MacKenzie & Dunleavy, Pc Christine Barton Rhoda Henning Karen Green Renae Lucas John Roby John Does 1-50 Michael Lewis Henry Mascagni Hayley J. Gardner Steve Grubb Linda Stewart Murline Addington Travis D. McHann Jr. Billy Lewis Booker T. Bailey, Jr. James Pigg Angela Brinkley Delanious Harried Gertrude Green Camelia Calvert Mary Wyatt Emma Walton Hetha Green Realnetworks, Incorporated Pradeep Sujan Carl C. Conrad Paul A. Dieter Franklin L. Dejulius Kevin Huddell Gary Leach v. Microsoft Corporation
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.