Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"Since our married woman's laws have given her an independent status in the ownership, use and enjoyment of her property, her rights to her own earnings, to engage in business, as well as the exercise of full political rights unknown at common law, it may be said the lawful domination of the husband is much changed, and his dominance in fact as a matter of common observation is not so universal as in other days. . . ." ( 245 Ala. at 421 , 17 So.2d at 400 .)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 345 So. 2d 631 - Peddy v. Montgomery

2. “"This statute recognizes the function of the husband in safeguarding the wife against imposition, etc. So in all normal situations the husband is presumed to be the dominant party in transactions, inter vivos, with the duty to shield the wife against oppressive dispositions of her property . . ."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 345 So. 2d 631 - Peddy v. Montgomery