Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably Wallin v. Wallin (1971), Marriage of Bledsoe v. Bledsoe (1984)
32 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 State of Illinois Ex Rel. Shannon v. Sterling · Fish v. Fish · Eberhart v. Eberhart · Larkin v. Larkin · Hasse v. Hasse
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. In postjudgment divorce proceedings, the trial court has broad discretion to order a revision or alteration of the judgment, including provisions for child support. Such an order may be reversed on appeal only for an abuse of discretion in the sense that the order is arbitrary or unreasonable or without evidentiary support.”
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.