Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 1994
4 federal appellate · 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 Renfrow v. Renfrow · State v. Hughes · Matney v. Linn · Litowich v. Litowich · Schuchart v. Schuchart
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.
“Under the provisions of our statute relating to domestic relations (G.S.1935, 23-101 et seq.) common-law marriages in acquired under such a marriage have been recognized in a variety of circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stilley v. Stilley“"... While that penalty may be enforced, the fact that the parties are guilty of the offense there charged does not annul the marriage...." (p. 3.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fleming v. Fleming
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.