Wolf and Klar Cos. v. Garner’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably Nearburg v. Yates Petroleum Corp. (1997), Garcia v. RODEY, DICKASON, SLOAN (1988)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 44 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 National Organization for Women, Inc. v. Idaho · Leitensdorfer v. Webb · NM State Bd. of Ed. v. BD. OF ED., ETC. · New Mexico State Board of Education v. Board of Education of Alamogordo Public School District No. 1 · Independent Steel & Wire Co. v. New Mexico Cent. R.
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The application of doctrines of “clean hands” or other such equitable defenses rests in the sound discretion of the trial court. Home Savings & Loan Ass’n v. Bates, 76 N.M. 660 , 417 P.2d 798 (1966). Absent a clear abuse of discretion, the trial court’s exercise thereof will not be disturbed on appeal. Flinchum Const. Co. v. Central Glass & Mirror Co., 94 N.M. 398 , 611 P.2d 221 (1980). Since it cannot be said that the court exceeded the bounds of reason, all circumstances before it being considered, Independent Steel & Wire Co. v. New Mexico Cent. R.R. Co., 25 N.M. 160 , 178 P. 842 (1919), we do not find an abuse of discretion....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“acts contrary to public policy, to sound morals, to the provisions of a statute, etc., however honest the intention with which they may have been performed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a breach of a legal or equitable duty, irrespective of the moral guilt of the fault-feasor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.