Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 1997
20 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 Schriver v. Schriver · Abare v. Abare · Fisher v. Fisher · Zulauf v. Zulauf · Hilbert v. Hilbert
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Something more than mere suspicion or indiscretion is necessary to overcome the presumption of innocence. [Citations omitted.] The circumstances must be such as to lead a reasonable and just man to the conclusion of misconduct, although adverse inferences may be drawn from evidence of disposition and opportunity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Borne v. Borne
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.