Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Hyle v. Porter (2008), Johnston v. State (Slip Opinion) (2015)
25 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 State v. Cook · Van Fossen v. Babcock & Wilcox Co. · Vogel v. Wells · 87 Ohio St. 3d 350 - Bielat v. Bielat · Gregory v. Flowers
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The retroactivity clause nullifies those new laws that `reach back and create new burdens, new duties, new obligations, or new liabilities not existing at the time [the statute becomes effective].'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“). Generally, a substantive statute is one that”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“'Section 28, Article II of the Ohio Constitution prohibits the General Assembly from passing retroactive laws and protects vested rights from new legislative encroachments.'”
5 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.