Smith v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably 590 So. 2d 209 - Insurance Mgt. & Admin. v. Palomar Ins. (1991), 856 So. 2d 766 - Neal v. Neal (2003)
72 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 Assured Inv'rs Life Ins. Co. v. Nat. U. Assoc. · 396 So. 2d 692 - City of Birmingham v. City of Fairfield · Coosa Marble Co., Inc. v. Whetstone · Textron, Inc. v. Whitfield · Acromag-Viking v. Blalock
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] judgment is void only if the court rendering it lacked jurisdiction of the subject matter or of the parties, or if it acted in a manner inconsistent with due process.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect; (2) newly discovered evidence which by due diligence could not have been discovered in time to move for a new trial under Rule 59(b); (3) fraud (whether heretofore denominated intrinsic or extrinsic), misrepresentation, or other misconduct of an adverse party; (4) the judgment is void; (5) the judgment has been satisfied, released, or discharged, or a prior judgment upon which it is based has been reversed or otherwise vacated, or it is no longer equitable that the judgment should have prospective application; or (6) any other reason justifying relief from the operation of the judgment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[a]n appeal from an order denying a Rule 60(b) motion presents for review only the correctness of that order,' and . . . on such an appeal '[t]he final judgment is not brought up for review.'”
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.