Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Appellant also contends that the decree of foreclosure should be reversed, because the property settlement was not incorporated in the decree for absolute divorce, or because it was not adopted in rendering the final divorce decree, and that their property rights now must be treated in this case as adjudged in the divorce suit. It was not necessary for the property rights of the parties to be adjudged in the divorce proceeding, as they had been settled by contract. The parties had a right to settle their property rights out of court by contract, and their contract relative thereto might be thereafter enforced in a court of competent jurisdiction. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Morgan v. Wells