Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
170 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 170 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Mather v. Griffin Hospital (1988), Leo v. Leo (1985)
170 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 Morgan v. Hill · Toffolon v. Town of Avon · Steinman v. Maier
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 170 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]othing in our law is more elementary than that the trier [of fact] is the final judge of the credibility of witnesses and of the weight to be accorded [to] the testimony.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The trier is free to accept or reject, in whole or in part, the testimony offered by either party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.