Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 2001
7 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 Colley v. Colley · Sharp v. Sharp
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f there was an increase in value of [the husband's nonmarital] property after the marriage due to team effort as contrasted with an increase caused by general economic conditions, she is entitled to share in that increase.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Travis v. Travis
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.