Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 1962
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 Albert v. Albert · Zimmerman v. Hafer · Barbour v. Mitchell · Hunt ex rel. City of Streator v. Evans · 42 N.J. Eq. 15 - Hurlbut v. Hutton
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.
““Whereas, I have this day made and executed a deed conveying to J. Monroe Zimmerman the farm whereon I now reside, I do hereby give and bequeath unto him, the said James Monroe Zimmerman, all my personal property of whatever description and wheresoever situate. I thus give to the said J. Monroe Zimmerman all my property and estate because,” etc.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jennings v. Reeson
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.