Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 2011
5 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 Frazier v. Frazier · Belford v. Belford · 160 So. 2d 159 - Ritsi v. Ritsi · 73 So. 2d 274 - Bennett v. Bennett · 43 So. 2d 865 - Sayward v. Sayward
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.
“"And, even if we do determine that there has been a substantial change in conditions, we would be warranted in altering said decree only where it appears that the welfare of the children will be promoted thereby."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gibbs v. Gibbs
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.