Goble v. O'Connor’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 18 state decisions

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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The appellant, by his own fraudulent acts, has placed himself in such a position that the court can afford him no relief. All these payments were made in pursuance of, and as a part and in completion of, the sale which was made to him, and which was fraudulent as to the rights of appellees because of his wrongful acts and practices at and during such sale, and his right to be reimbursed all payments and expenditures must arise out of the sale which was tainted with his fraud and wrong, and void in consequence thereof, and his claim derived from such a source cannot be recognized in any court. To require the appellees to repay what has been paid out by appellant in this case would not be enforcing the rule that ‘he who seeks equity must do equity.’ ‘The rule has no application to cases of actual fraud. It would be against good policy that it should; for it would act as an encouragement to unfair dealing. A man might gain, but he could not lose by his frauds. If he succeeded, he would reap the fruits of his knavery; but if detected, he would be entitled to a return of his money, and moreover to be reimbursed to the value of his improvements.’ (Gilbert v. Hoffman, 26 Am. Dec. [Pa.] 103.) The sale to appellant was void because of his wrongful and fraudulent acts at the time of the sale, and he acquired no title as against appellees, and is not entitled to have the money paid out by him refunded; and this last, not by way of punishment, and not that the court would help or desire”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Leinbach v. Dyatt