Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently August 1998 · most notably LaBella v. LaBella (1948), Labella v. Labella (1948)
36 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 Artman v. Artman · Woodbridge v. Pratt & Whitney Co. · Bradley v. Fenn · Lathrop v. Lathrop · Dickerman v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the measure of the husband's duty is that support to which the wife is entitled by virtue of the marital contract. . . . generally speaking, it requires the husband to provide `within the reasonable limits of his ability, for her comfort and happiness as well as for her mere bodily shelter and food.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Labella v. Labella
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.