Chapman v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
2
states following
October 2015
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Andler v. Andler · 559 So. 2d 1014 - Thurman v. Thurman · Hammett v. Woods · Newman v. Newman · 420 So. 2d 1072 - Mooneyham v. Mooneyham
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The principle of “unclean hands” dictates that he who comes into [a court of] equity must come with clean hands.... The meaning of this maxim is to declare that no person as a complaining party can have the aid of a court of equity when his conduct with respect to the transaction in question has been characterized by wilful inequity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tatum v. Tatum
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.