Calcote v. Calcote’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2015
16 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 473 So. 2d 416 - Allgood v. Allgood · Cain v. Thomas
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No person as a complaining party may have the aid of a court of equity when his conduct with respect to the transaction has been characterized by willful inequity or illegality... . It may be described as such wilful misconduct, inequity or fraud with respect to the immediate transaction as would be condumned and pronounced wrongful by honest and fair-minded men.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“He who comes into equity must come with clean hands.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.