Shondel v. McDermott’s Empirical Analysis
775 F.2d 859 · 1985
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably American Hospital Supply Corp. v. Hospital Products Ltd. (1986), Lawson Products, Inc. v. Avnet, Inc. (1986)
53 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 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 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 5 U.S.C. § 1501
Relies on Santosky v. Kramer · Elrod v. Burns · Branti v. Finkel · Thornhill v. Alabama · Moore v. City of East Cleveland
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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[U]nclean hands' really just means that in equity as in law the plaintiff's fault, like the defendant's, may be relevant to the question of what if any remedy the plaintiff is entitled to.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In this age of legalism, when relatively few plaintiffs are wholly free from any trace of arguable misconduct at least tangentially related to the objective of their suit, the right to injunctive relief, especially to preliminary injunctive relief, would have little value if the defendant could divert the proceeding into the byways of collateral misconduct.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[h]e who comes into equity must come with clean hands,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.