Adams v. Manown’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
18 district · 91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Inc. v. Neal (2007), 67 Cal. App. 4th 995 - Cloud v. Northrop Grumman Corp. (1998)
18 district · 91 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 Difronzo v. United States · Mobil Alaska Pipeline Co. v. United States · Loughran v. Loughran · First National Bank of Jacksboro v. Lasater · 227 Cal. App. 2d 675 - Fibreboard Paper Products Corp. v. East Bay Union of MacHinists, Local 1304
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is only when the plaintiff's improper conduct is the source, or part of the source, of his equitable claim, that he is to be barred because of this conduct. What is material is not that the plaintiff's hands are dirty, but that he dirties them in acquiring the right he now asserts.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Given that a circuit court has the discretion to deny a motion for summary judgment, even though the record on summary judgment would support grant of the motion at that time, the correct mode of analysis here is to determine whether the party moving for judgment at the conclusion of trial is entitled to judgment as a matter of law on the record as it stands at that time.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“‘The clean hands doctrine is not applied for the protection of the parties nor as a punishment to the wrongdoer; rather, the doctrine is intended to protect the courts from having to endorse or reward inequitable conduct’ ”); Manown v. Adams, 89 Md.App. 503, 511 , 598 A.2d 821 (1991), rev'd on other grounds, 328 Md. 463 , 615 A.2d 611 (1992) (”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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