Ford v. Buffalo Eagle Colliery Co.’s Empirical Analysis
122 F.2d 555 · 1941
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 2000
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Keystone Driller Co. v. General Excavator Co. · Bowers v. New York & Albany Lighterage Co. · Ritter v. United States · Sumi v. Young · 19 W. Va. 438 - Crislip v. Cain
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“True it is that all the appellants have not been found guilty of fraud in the sale of their stock to the Colliery Company. But the bar of the clean-hands maxim is not employed for the punishment of wrongdoers; rather, it is introduced to protect the court of equity and the party defendant from having the powers of the court used in bringing about an inequitable result in the particular litigation before it. * * * Thus, the appellants, though all are not guilty of unconscionable conduct, cannot here claim the benefit of a fraud perpetrated by one or two of their number. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. De Gaster v. Dillon
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.