Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
May 2012
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Talley v. South Carolina Higher Education Tuition Grants Committee · Donahue v. Donahue · Cost of Wisconsin, Inc. v. Shaw
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“two common methods of valuing pensions ...: (1) present cash value, and (2) distribution from each payment”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Way v. Way
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.