Topic: he who comes into equity must come with clean hands. · Go Syfert
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3 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 35 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Precision Instrument Manufacturing Co. v. Automotive Maintenance MacHinery Co..

#Case FlagCanonical passage Citers
1 Precision Instrument Manufacturing Co. v. Automotive Maintenance MacHinery Co. Anchor
scotus · 1945
green “he who comes into equity must come with clean hands.” 27
2 Loughran v. Loughran
scotus · 1934
green “equity does not demand that its suitors shall have led blameless lives,” 5
3 Precision Instrument Manufacturing Co. v. Automotive Maintenance MacHinery Co.
scotus · 1945
green “this maxim necessarily gives wide range to the equity court's use of discretion in refusing to aid the unclean litigant.” 3

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