220 N.J. Super. 46 - Schmidt v. Schmidt’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
4 district · 9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 8 Utah 2d 261 - Child v. Child · 64 N.J. Super. 156 - Aiello v. Knoll Golf Club · Untermann v. Untermann · New Jersey Suburban Water Co. v. Town of Harrison · Faustin v. Lewis
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled that the equitable maxim `he who comes into equity must come with clean hands' applies to matrimonial cases ... the doctrine of `Unclean Hands' gives expression to the equitable principle that a court should not grant relief to a wrongdoer with respect to the subject matter in suit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“equitable estoppel embodies the doctrine that one may not repudiate an act done or position assumed where the course would work injustice to another who, having the right to do so, relied thereon ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.