Treadaway v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2015
10 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 Moseley v. Mosier · Hallums v. Hallums · Ellis v. Taylor · Jordan v. Security Group, Inc. · Risinger v. Risinger
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Moseley , the supreme court decreed that thereafter “jurisdiction for all domestic matters, whether by decree or by agreement, will vest in the family court.” Moseley, 279 S.C. at 353 , 306 S.E.2d at 627 . Under pre-Moseley law, the family court retained jurisdiction over a separation agreement only if the parties provided that the agreement had become an integral part of a court decree and had lost its character as a separate agreement. [Austelle v. Austelle, 294 S.C. 19, 22 , 362 S.E.2d 181,183 (Ct.App.1987).] However, “agreements which were incorporated but not merged furnished the family court no subject-matter jurisdiction over them.” Id.; see Bryant v. Varat, 278 S.C. 77 , 292 S.E.2d 298 (1982) (holding the family court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over a 1978 agreement incorporated but not merged into a divorce decree).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Peterson v. Peterson“Whenever it shall appear from the attestation clause or from any other part of any instrument in writing that it was the intention of the party or parties thereto that such instrument should be a sealed instrument then such instrument shall be construed to be, and shall have the effect of, a sealed instrument although no seal be actually attached thereto.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“SIGNED SEALED AND DELIVERED IN THE PRESENCE OF [signatures of parties and witnesses]”
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.