Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 2002 · most notably 92 So. 2d 629 - Wadlington v. Edwards (1957), Ward v. Commissioner (1986)
4 federal appellate · 31 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 Quinn v. Phipps · Sorrells v. McNally
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Constructive trusts are related to the doctrine of equitable estoppel and arise when property has been obtained fraudulently, or gotten without fraud and retained inequitably. Quinn v. Phipps, 93 Fla. 805 , 113 South. Rep. 419 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] vital element is the intention which will be presumed from the facts.”
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.