Owens v. Owens’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
95 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably Tiger Motor Co. v. McMurtry (1969), Killingsworth v. Killingsworth (1969)
95 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 Roubicek v. Roubicek · Sills v. Sills · Garlington v. Garlington · Bernhard v. Bernhard · Savage v. Savage
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * for in that case [Bernhard] the action concerned the individual action of the parties with no power in the Chancellor to consent for either party to a division of the remainder. “Equity grants full relief when it has jurisdiction on any equitable ground to grant any relief. Having assumed jurisdiction upon the invocation of the parties, the Chancellor will determine all the interrelated equities of the whole. * * * ” Owens v. Owens, supra, at page 243, 201 So.2d at page 399 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““One who comes into equity must do so with clean hands, and equity will not aid one in extracting himself or herself from hurtful consequences when his or her acts are reprehensible and directly connected with the subject matter of the litigation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Amason v. Amason““The parties testified ore tenus before the Chancellor. He heard and saw the witnesses. Much must therefore be left to his discretion. [Citations omitted.]””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pruitt v. Pruitt
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.