Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Stalnaker v. DLC, Ltd. (In Re DLC, Ltd.) (2003), Wicker v. Vogel (1994)
51 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 7 Cal. 4th 246 - Burch v. George · DeVaux v. DeVaux · Kerndt v. Ronan · Lang v. Com., Dept. of Public Welfare · Dalton Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Cadillac, Inc. v. Universal Underwriters Insurance
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he payment of the child support arrearage would not further the purposes of the trusts, since the children are emancipated. Without a showing that the payment of the arrearage would contribute to the support of the beneficiaries of the trusts, [the trustee] could not be compelled to distribute trust assets. 26”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he Trastee shall pay over to, or for the benefit of, any one or more of the living members of a class composed of my son ... and his issue so much of the net income and principal of the trust as the Trustee shall deem to be in the best interest of each such person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the trustee of a discretionary support trust can be compelled to carry out the purpose of the trust in good faith.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.