Houtz v. Hellman’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently August 1984 · most notably Diener v. Star-Chronicle Publishing Co. (1910), Shohoney v. Quincy, Omaha & Kansas City Railroad (1910)
4 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 Dysart v. Crow
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The maxim is enforced by the chancellor ex mero motu , and because of public policy, when the facts call it into use, though the disclosures are made at the trial as happened in this case. Sometimes it is applied where both plaintiff and defendant have knowingly made a contract tainted with illegality; sometimes it is applied where only the party seeking to enforce is in fault; but it proceeds always on the theory that the dignity of the court is touched to the quick, and that courts of equity will not countenance inequity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“he who comes into equity must come with clean hands,”
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.