120 Cal. App. 2d 474 - Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 1992 · most notably 60 Cal. 2d 677 - McClenny v. Superior Court (1964), 70 Cal. 2d 8 - In Re McKinney (1968)
30 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 Pennoyer v. Neff · Michigan Trust Co. v. Ferry · De la Montanya v. De la Montanya · 38 Cal. 2d 676 - Lerner v. Superior Court · Judson v. Superior Court
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Respondent argues that the rule of these cases is limited to situations where the party seeks some affirmative relief. Even if the rule were so limited, the rule would be here applicable because respondent is seeking a favorable decision on the issue of lack of jurisdiction over the subject matter and that, of course, is an attempt to secure affirmative relief.” (Smith v. Smith, supra, 120 Cal.App.2d at p. 482 .)”
2 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.