Bailey v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 873 So. 2d 970 - Harris v. Mississippi Valley State Univ. (2004), University of Southern Miss. v. Williams (2004)
55 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 2601 (§ 2 of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993)
Relies on 547 So. 2d 766 - Nichols v. Tedder · 579 So. 2d 543 - Caldwell v. Caldwell · Stanton v. Stanton · Nelson v. Nelson · 573 So. 2d 1389 - Tingle v. Tingle
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because of dishonest purpose or moral obliquity.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The clean hands doctrine prevents a complaining party from obtaining equitable relief in court when he is guilty of willful misconduct in the transaction at issue.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] husband may not petition for modification of the original decree without showing either that he has performed it or that his performance has been wholly impossible.... However, a husband may exonerate himself from failure to make alimony or child support payments as ordered, because of his inability to pay, but his evidence must be made with particularity and not in general terms."”
3 later decisions 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.