Thomas v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 1975
13 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 Sprayberry v. Merk · Wise v. Wise · Mosely v. Mosely · Walden v. Walden · Knox v. Knox
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A judgment that the attorney for the petitioner in a suit for alimony should recover a stated sum as attorney's fees will be construed as a judgment that the plaintiff recover as attorney's fees the amount stated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. White v. Bowen
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.