Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
293 F.3d 984 · 2002
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Robinson v. Overseas Military Sales Corp. · 184 Ill. 2d 109 - Cirrincione v. Johnson · Lesch v. Crown Cork & Seal Co. · 308 Ill. App. 3d 337 - Eichmann v. National Hospital & Health Care Services, Inc. · Sheryl Smith Schoenfeld v. Kenneth S. Apfel
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The unclean hands doctrine provides that a party to a lawsuit may not obtain the relief it seeks if it has engaged in wrongful conduct.”
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.