Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2014
20 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 455 So. 2d 863 - Ex Parte McLendon · 55 Ala. App. 379 - Gould v. Gould · 368 So. 2d 295 - Alford v. Alford · 370 So. 2d 1008 - Roberson v. Roberson · 406 So. 2d 932 - Pons v. Phillips
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conduct may be considered as a factor in custody modification actions; however, custody will not be modified where the party seeking the change (here the father) fails to establish a substantial detrimental effect on the welfare of the child as a result of the”
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.