Smith v. Hawthorne’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 2022
14 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 Stickney v. City of Saco · State v. Marden · Keybank National Ass'n v. Sargent · State v. Wilder · Richards v. Soucy
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings. 1. Abuse. “Abuse” means the occurrence of the following acts between family or household members or dating partners or by a family or household member or dating partner upon a minor child of a family or household member or dating partner: B. Attempting to place or placing another in fear of bodily injury through any course of conduct, including, but not limited to, threatening, harassing or tormenting behavior.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jusseaume v. Ducatt“where the trial court's ability to observe the witnesses invariably plays a part in its assessment of the impact a particular person's words and actions had upon another person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Allen v. Rae
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.