Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
24
cited by 24 later decisions
1
states following
January 2005
most recently cited
24 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on McCarty v. McCarty · Smith v. Smith · Lide v. Lide · Brown v. Brown · Whitfield v. Hanks
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A court should not give a spouse exclusive possession of a residence as an incident of support where the evidence reflects that a substantial portion of the other spouse’s assets are invested in the home and there is no evidence either that the other spouse has custody of the parties’ minor children, that the other spouse is severely handicapped, or that some other special circumstances exist which would warrant such an award. Smith, supra.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barone v. Barone
How this case has been treated — in progress
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