Myers v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 2019
8 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 Holden v. Construction MacHinery Company · Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery Ass'n v. Personnel Associates Inc. · Kellerhals v. Kallenberger · First Trust & Savings Bank v. Iowa-Wisconsin Bridge Co. · United States ex rel. Garos v. Reimer
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.
“is ordinarily invoked to protect the integrity of the court where granting affirmative equitable relief would run contrary to public policy or lend the court's aid to fraudulent, illegal or unconscionable conduct.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“he who comes into equity must come with clean hands,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Himrich v. Carpenter
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.