Cain v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently December 2010
3 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 Thigpen v. Kennedy · Crabb v. Comer · Patterson v. Koerner
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The chancellor properly dismissed the bill of complaint at the conclusion of complainant's testimony because complainant had participated in placing title to the land in her parents by fraudulent transfers against public policy, thus creating the situation for which she sought the aid of a court of equity. She did not come into court with clean hands. Having concluded that complainant was not entitled to any relief under the clean hands doctrine, it is not necessary to consider whether a constructive trust existed... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Calcote v. Calcote“He who comes into equity must come with clean hands.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Calcote v. Calcote
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.