27 Tenn. App. 585 - Thomas v. Hedges’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2009
14 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 Texas Pacific Coal & Oil Co. v. Fox · 2 Smith & H. 342 - Cockrill v. Peoples Savings Bank · Galveston, H. & S. A. Ry. Co. v. Buck · Fidelity Mut. Life Ins. Co. v. Wall · Mengle Box Co. v. Lauderdale County
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Tjhere being no intervening rights of creditors, the deed was good as between the parties and their privies. “And it is settled in this state by an unbroken line of decisions that a party guilty of fraud is not entitled to be relieved from its consequences. Williams v. Lowe, 23 Tenn. 62 ; Moody v. Fry, 22 Tenn. 567 ; Coleman v. Pinkard, 21 Tenn. 298 , Sharp v. Caldwell, 26 Tenn. 415 , 416; Parks v. McCamy, 40 Tenn. 297 ; Hubbs v. Brockwell, 35 Tenn. 574 ; see notes to Sec. 7832 of Williams Annotated Code. “The rationale of the rule is to be found in the two maxims: ‘He who comes into equity must come with clean hands’; and ‘No one can take advantage of his own wrongs.’ Gibson’s Suite in Chancery, 42 and 51. “The fact that the bill ... charges that the defendants participated in the fraud avails the complainants nothing. The applicable maxim is that ‘Where parties are equally in the wrong, the condition of the defendants is the stronger.’ In such a case, a court of equity declines to intervene, not by way of favoring the defendant, but because public policy requires that the court be not used to enable a party to reap the benefit of his own fraud. See Pomeroy on E.Jur., Sec. 401.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCallie v. McCallie
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