Hlista v. Altevogt’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
4 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2017
4 district · 20 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 Tawney v. Mutual System of Maryland, Inc. · Mas v. Coca-Cola Co. · Stebbins-Anderson Co. v. Bolton · Niner v. Hanson · Messick v. Smith
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“courts of equity will not lend their aid to anyone seeking their active interposition, who has been guilty of fraudulent, illegal, or inequitable conduct in the matter with relation to which he seeks assistance.” Hlista v. Altevogt, 239 Md. 43, 48 , 210 A.2d 153, 156 (1965), See also Lyon v. Campbell, 33 Fed.Appx. 659, 665 (4th Cir. 2002) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.