Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 129 N.C. App. 305 - Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A. v. Smith (1998), 129 N.C. App. 499 - Willis v. City of Southport Board of Adjustment (1998)
66 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 · Woodard v. Mordecai · Armstrong v. Armstrong · Plott v. Plott · 111 N.C. App. 460 - Smith v. Smith
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, the court must identify and classify all property as marital or separate based upon the evidence presented regarding the nature of the asset. Second, the court must determine the net value of the marital property as of the date of the parties’ separation, with net value being market value, if any, less the amount of any encumbrances. Third, the court must distribute the marital property in an equitable manner.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“There shall be an equal division by using net value of marital property unless the court determines that an equal division is not equitable. If the court determines that an equal division is not equitable, the court shall divide the marital property equitably.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Second, the court must determine the net value of the marital [and divisible] property as of the date of the parties' separation, with net value being market value, if any, less the amount of any encumbrances.”
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.