Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Ford v. Ford (2002), Harold Ives Trucking, Co. v. Pro Transportation, Inc. (2000)
38 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 Black v. Van Steenwyk · Craig v. Traylor · K.W. v. State · Thomas v. Pacheco · Arkansas Department of Human Services v. Lopez
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have interpreted this portion of Rule 2 to mean that, for an order to be appealable, it must dismiss the parties from the court, discharge them from the action, or conclude their rights to the subject matter in controversy. The order must be of such a nature as to not only decide the rights of the parties, but to put the court’s directive into execution, ending the litigation or a separable part of it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Warren v. Kelso
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.