Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2023
13 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 International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Shaffer v. Heitner · Kulko v. Superior Court of California in and for City and County of San Francisco · Williams v. State of North Carolina · Estin v. Estin
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Divorce proceedings typically contain two principal components: (1) the dissolution of the marital status, and (2) the adjudication of the incidences of the marriage. The “divisible divorce” doctrine recognizes that each of these components have “distinct and separate jurisdictional foundations.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Johnson
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.