Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably Stambaugh v. Stambaugh (1974), Eways v. Reading Parking Authority (1956)
1 federal appellate · 45 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 Williams v. State of North Carolina · Williams v. State of North Carolina · Dorrance's Estate · Pusey's Estate · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Esenwein v. Esenwein
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . an injunction may only be granted where the spouse has not established a bona fide domicile in the state in which the divorce is sought.”
2 later decisions 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.