Thigpen v. Kennedy’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably R.K. v. J.K. (2007), 645 So. 2d 1327 - Parker v. Parker (1994)
33 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 Crabb v. Comer · Patterson v. Koerner
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“he who comes into equity must come with clean hands.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]ransfers of this nature and for such purposes are in violation of the statute of frauds and contrary to public policy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“he did not come into court 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.