Stone v. Williams

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “One form of prejudice is the decreased ability of the defendants to vindicate themselves that results from the death of witnesses or on account of fading memories or stale evidence.”
• “Laches is not imposed as a bar to suit simply because a plaintiff’s delay is found unexcused; it must also be determined whether the defendants have been prejudiced as a result of that delay.”
• delay of six years in bringing action not unreasonable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

25 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Stone v. Williams
  Second Circuit· 1992-07-13· cited 96×
• The Travelers Insurance Company v. Cuomo
  Second Circuit· 1994-01-14· cited 92×
• Stone v. Williams
  Second Circuit· 1989-04-21· cited 30×
• Indian Motocycle Associates, Inc. v. Drexel Burnham Lambert Group, Inc. (In Re Drexel Burnham Lambert Group, Inc.)
  S.D. New York· 1993-07-13· cited 28×
• Odetics, Inc. v. Storage Technology Corp.
  E.D. Virginia· 1996-03-22· cited 13×
• Mussington Ex Rel. Jacobs v. St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
  S.D. New York· 1993-06-11· cited 11×
• Imagineering, Inc. v. Van Klassens, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 1994-03-30· cited 11×
• United States v. Portrait of Wally
  S.D. New York· 2009-09-30· cited 11×
• Taft v. United States
  D. Vermont· 1993-06-04· cited 10×
• In Re Feldman
  E.D. New York· 2001-04-10· cited 10×
• Union Bank of India v. Seven Seas Imports, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 1989-12-26· cited 9×
• United States v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters
  S.D. New York· 1993-08-11· cited 9×
• RxUSA Wholesale, Inc. v. Department of Health & Human Services
  E.D. New York· 2006-12-11· cited 8×
• DeWeerth v. Baldinger
  S.D. New York· 1992-10-16· cited 7×
• K.P. v. Juzwic
  D. Connecticut· 1995-06-19· cited 7×
• Petition of Rukavina
  S.D. New York· 1998-12-01· cited 7×
• Island Online, Inc. v. Network Solutions, Inc.
  E.D. New York· 2000-11-06· cited 6×
• Batiste v. City of New Haven
  D. Connecticut· 2002-12-23· cited 4×
• Trustees of the Centennial State Carpenters Pension Trust Fund v. Centric Corp. (In re Centric Corp.)
  Tenth Circuit· 1990-04-23· cited 4×
• In Re Tishler
  D. Connecticut· 1996-10-03· cited 3×