Bond v. Crawford’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Lucy v. Zehmer (1954), Haythe v. May (1982)
6 federal appellate · 37 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 Loughran v. Loughran · Morrill v. Amoskeag Savings Bank · 119 W. Va. 501 - Highland v. Davis · Miller v. Kemp · Mooers v. Wilson
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled that the clean hands maxim does not operate to bar a sinner forever from a court of equity. As Mr. Justice Brandéis put it in Loughran v. Loughran, 292 U.S. 216, 229, 54 S. Ct. 684, 689 , 78 L.ed. 1219, “Equity does not demand that its suitors shall have led blameless lives.” The misconduct relied on must relate directly to the matter in litigation. It is not sufficient that the wrongdoing is remotely or indirectly connected with the subject of the suit. [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.