Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 2002
13 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 Diaz v. Southern Drilling Corp. · Marshall v. Ford Motor Co. · Anderson v. Anderson
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellant finds herself in a dilemma from which she cannot escape: either [plaintiff husband] was a resident of Union County, Arkansas, as he claimed to be and as the chancellor found, and the decree of divorce is valid and, hence, res judicata. Anderson v. Anderson, 223 Ark. 571 , 267 S.W.2d 316 (1954); or he was not a resident of Arkansas and perpetrated a fraud upon the court. If so, the appellant could not have been ignorant of that fraud and was a willing participant in it. In either event, she is precluded by the stigma of her own involvement from any relief against a decree obtained under these circumstances. See Leflar, American Conflicts Law, § 224 (1968). 612 S.W.2d at 737 . (Emphasis and brackets supplied.)”
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.