Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 2013
9 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 92 So. 2d 629 - Wadlington v. Edwards · Tillman v. Pitt Cole Company · 92 So. 2d 614 - Cannova v. Carran
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the cause for further proceedings consistent with this opinion so that the appellee may, if she is able to do so tender any further evidence in support of her contentions that a constructive trust should be decreed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“would be on the theory of the existence of a constructive trust.”
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.