Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
30 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1408
Relies on McCarty v. McCarty · Gloria Theriault v. David E. Smith · 296 F. Supp. 1178 - Griffin v. State Board of Education · McGrath Atty. Gen. v. Potash. McGrath Atty. Gen. v. Doyle · Robert C. S. v. Barbara J. S.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] decision to reopen this case is simply a decision to permit the Wife to come in and present her case under Delaware law as it existed before McCarty and as it has existed for litigants whose cases were heard after McCarty.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(f)ormer spouses divorced in the interim period between the McCarty decision and the effective date of this law will have the opportunity to return to court to have their decrees modified in light of this legislation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“any other reason justifying relief from the operation of the judgment.”
3 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.