Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently January 1999 · most notably First Virginia Bankshares v. Benson (1977), First Alabama Bank of Montgomery Na v. First State Insurance Company Inc (1990)
2 federal appellate · 34 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 Van Antwerp v. Van Antwerp · Randolph v. Vails · Ex Parte Darnell · Boyte v. Perkins · First Nat. Bank v. Bonner
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In construing a statute, every word and section thereof must be given effect, if possible, and construed with other sections in pari materia.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.