Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 2001
2 federal appellate · 9 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 In Re Petersen's Estate · John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. v. Dawson · 239 Mo. App. 607 - Estate of Harlow v. Harlow
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“These [vested] rights represented an interest in a chose in action; that is, the right to the proceeds of the [insurance] policy, or the right to sue therefor if necessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Melissa Lancaster
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.