Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably McLean v. McLean (1988), Wake County v. Hotels.com, L.P. (2014)
2 federal appellate · 65 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 White v. White · 100 Ill. App. 3d 452 - In Re Marriage of Hellwig · Chalmers v. Chalmers · 58 Md. App. 386 - Sharp v. Sharp · State v. Fenner
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The income, property, and liabilities of each party at the time the division of property is to become effective. (2) Any obligation for support arising out of a prior marriage. (3) The'duration of the marriage and the age and physical and mental health of both parties. (4) The need of a parent with custody of a child or children of the marriage to occupy or own the marital residence and to use or own its household effects. (5) The expectation of pension, retirement, or other deferred compensation rights that are not marital property. (6) Any equitable claim to, interest in, or direct or indirect contribution made to the acquisition of such marital property by the party not having title, including joint efforts or expenditures and contributions and services, or lack thereof, as a spouse, parent, wage earner or homemaker. (7) Any direct or indirect contribution made by one spouse to help educate or develop the career potential of the other spouse. (8) Any direct contribution to an increase in value of separate property which occurs during the course of the marriage. (9) The liquid or nonliquid character of all marital property and divisible property. (10) The difficulty of evaluating any component asset or any interest in a business, corporation or profession, and the economic desirability of retaining such asset or interest, intact and free from any claim or interference by the other party. (11) The tax consequences to each party, including those federal and State tax cons”
5 later decisions 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.