Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 2010
16 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 Hart v. Bayless Investment & Trading Company · Burkhardt v. Burkhardt · Galbraith v. Galbraith · 3 Ariz. App. 138 - Bailey v. Bailey · 137 Ga. App. 762 - LaRue v. State
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court shall determine custody, either originally or upon petition for modification, in accordance with the best interests of the child. The court may consider all relevant factors, including: 1. The wishes of the child’s parent or parents as to his custody. 2. The wishes of the child as to his custodian. 3. The interaction and interrelationship of the child with his parent or parents, his siblings, and any other person who may significantly affect the child’s best interest. 4. The child’s adjustment to his home, school and community. 5. The mental and physical health of all individuals involved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anderson v. Anderson
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.