Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Bowers v. Bowers (2002), Doe v. Doe (2006)
52 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 Glasscock v. Glasscock · Cherry v. Thomasson · Stevenson v. Stevenson · Nienow v. Nienow · Rutherford v. Rutherford
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“These [factors] include, inter alia , the duration of the marriage, marital misconduct by either spouse, the health of each spouse, the income of each spouse, and the contribution * of each spouse to the acquisition of the marital property, including the contribution of a spouse as homemaker.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Stoney v. Stoney · Stoney v. Stoney
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.