Gaudiosi v. Mellon’s Empirical Analysis
269 F.2d 873 · 1959
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 12 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably In Re Estate of Pedrick (1984), Universal Builders, Inc. v. Moon Motor Lodge, Inc. (1968)
21 federal appellate · 12 district · 13 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Precision Instrument Mfg Co v. Automotive Maintenance Machinery Co · Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co. · Keystone Driller Co. v. General Excavator Co. · United States v. Crescent Amusement Co. · Jamieson v. Woodward
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘The doctrine (of unclean hands) is confessedly derived from the unwillingness of a court, originally and still nominally one of conscience, to give its peculiar relief to a suitor who in the very controversy has so conducted himself as to shock the moral sensibilities of the judge. It has nothing to do with the rights or liabilities of the parties; indeed the defendant who invokes it need not be damaged, and the court may even raise it sua sponte.’”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]ne who comes into equity must come with clean hands and keep those hands clean throughout the pendency of the litigation. ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““On review of the record we are of the opinion that it amply sustains the District Court’s fact-findings and Conclusions of Law with respect to Phillips’ ‘unclean hands’ [with reference to plaintiff’s attempts to intimidate stockholders] * *”
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.