Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2015
23 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 Alabama State Federation of Labor Local v. McAdory · Consolidated Edison Co. of New York v. United States · New York Stock Exchange v. Legate · Oliver v. United States · Linus Pauling v. James O. Eastland
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.
“[W]here the ultimate question depends on contingencies which may not come about, that question is not ripe for judicial resolution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“when the parties' rights may be immediately affected by ... a judicial decision [resolving it].”
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.