Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably State v. Perez (1980), Tri-State Tank Corp. v. Higganum Heating, Inc. (1997)
2 district · 45 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1738
Relies on Milliken v. Meyer · Williams v. State of North Carolina · Johnson v. Muelberger · Cook v. Cook · Esenwein v. Commonwealth ex rel. Esenwein
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] judgment presumes jurisdiction over the subject matter and over the persons . . . . To overcome this presumption, the burden of undermining the decree of a sister state rests heavily on the assailant.”
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.