Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently June 1993 · most notably Becker v. Becker (1978), McDougal v. McDougal (1955)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 55 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 Kelley v. Kelley · Raymond v. Ashley · Howell v. Howell · Robinson v. Robinson · Marshall v. Marshall
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the interest of social welfare and justice”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““When a divorce shall be adjudged, the court shall make such order touching the alimony and maintenance of the wife * * * as, from the circumstances of the parties and the nature of the case, shall be reasonable * * ⅜ »”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ridgley v. Ridgley
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.