Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably Nienow v. Nienow (1977), Patel v. Patel (2004)
56 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 Porter v. Porter · Graham v. Graham · McNaughton v. McNaughton · Murdock v. Murdock · Wilson v. Wilson
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule in this State is well settled that the amount to be awarded for alimony and child support, as well as a determination of whether the wife is entitled to alimony at all, is within the sound discretion of the trial judge.”); Allen, 347 S.C. at 184 , 554 S.E.2d at 424 (”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hawley v. Hawley
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.