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Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

1995

Citation profile

28
cited by 28 later decisions
2
states following
May 2020
most recently cited

27 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably Brandt v. Somerville (2005), Edwards v. Edwards (1997)

27 state decisions

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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 Rummel v. Rummel · Rueckert v. Rueckert · Guthmiller v. Guthmiller · Knudson v. Director, North Dakota Department of Transportation · Tiokasin v. Haas

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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Income must be documented through the use of tax returns, current wage statements, and other information sufficient[ ] to fully apprise the court of all gross income.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Wolf v. Wolf · Shaver v. Kopp
  2. ““The income and financial circumstances of the spouse of an obligor should not be considered as income for child support purposes unless the spouse’s income and financial circumstances are, to a significant extent, subject to control by the obligor as, for instance, where the obligor is a principal in a business employing the spouse.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Quamme v. Bellino
  3. “A trial court abuses its discretion if it acts in an arbitrary, capricious, or unreasonable manner, or if it misapplies or misinterprets the law.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. In Re Guardianship of Barros

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.