Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably State v. Greenway (1991), State v. Carver (1989)
44 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 United States v. Grinnell Corp. · Lehigh Valley Cooperative Farmers, Inc. v. United States · In re Union Leader Corp. · Ison v. Western Vegetable Distributors · Orlando v. Northcutt
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[I]f we were to hold as a matter of law that a party can obtain a disqualification of a sitting judge merely by filing suit against him, the orderly administration of judicial proceedings would be severely hampered and thwarted.” Smith v. Smith (App. 1977), 115 Ariz. 299, 303 , 564 P. 2d 1266, 1270 .”
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.