Cowan v. Cowan’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
2 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Williamson v. Montana Public Service Commission & Northwestern Energy (2012), McKinnon v. Western Sugar Cooperative Corp. (2010)
2 district · 46 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 Kauffman-Harmon v. Kauffman · Lee v. Musselshell County · Powell v. Salvation Army · City of Cut Bank v. Tom Patrick Construction, Inc. · Cowan v. Cowan
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`parties must not expect relief in equity, unless they come into court with clean hands.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re TH
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.