Harrell v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2013
12 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 Comstock v. Thompson · Sliman v. Moore · Waller v. Eanes' · Wilburn v. Wheeler · Lambert v. B. F. Corp.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the “clean hands” doctrine is a wholesome one, it is not absolute and has its limitations. 30 C.J.S., Equity, § 98, pp. 487 ff. It will not be applied where an inequitable result would be reached. Comstock v. Thompson, 286 Pa. 457 , 133 A. 638, 640 . Its purpose is to secure justice and equity, not to aid one in acquiring property to which he has no right. Sliman v. Moore, 198 Ark. 734, 131 S.W.2d 1, 3 . In Waller v. Eanes, 156 Va. 389, 399 , 157 S.E. 721 , we held that it should not be applied where the result would be contrary to public policy. [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.