13 Wash. App. 381 - Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 1994
14 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 66 Wash. 2d 503 - Lambert v. Lambert · 42 Wash. 2d 129 - Bowman v. Webster · 13 Wash. App. 59 - State v. Armstead · 46 Wash. 2d 611 - Corson v. Corson · 74 Wash. 2d 319 - Hume v. Hume
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“either manifestly unreasonable or clearly untenable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““In determining whether or not there has been such a substantial change of circumstances as will warrant modification of the child support provisions of a divorce decree, the trial court must consider the income available not only to both parents, but also to their respective new marital communities, if any. (Emphasis added.)” Id. 13 Wash.App. at 382 , 534 P.2d at 1034 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Yost v. Yost
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.