78 N.C. App. 379 - Ray v. Norris’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Crumley & Associates, P.C. v. Charles Peed & Associates, P.A. (2012), 216 N.C. App. 419 - Collier v. Bryant (2011)
27 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 Mims v. Mims · 68 N.C. App. 588 - Collins v. Davis · West v. Slick · Waddell v. Carson · Cline v. Cline
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The doctrine of clean hands is an equitable defense which prevents recovery where the party seeking relief comes into court with unclean hands.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“relief is not to be denied because of general iniquitous conduct.”
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.