Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 2018
23 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 Watkins v. Layton · Dryden v. Rogers · First National Bank v. Peck · Haynes v. Haynes · Calkins v. Calkins
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The mortgage . . . provided that if any interest should not be paid when due the whole of the debt, principal and interest, should immediately become due and payable. . . . “By the language of the acceleration clause . . . the default in the interest payment of its own force, without any declaration, notice, or exercise of an option on the part of the creditor, matured the entire debt .... [Citations omitted.]” (Emphasis added.)”
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.