Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2007
23 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 Conrad v. Bowers · Klinge v. Klinge · In Re the Marriage of Heddy · Forsythe v. Forsythe · Ortmann v. Ortmann
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1. The circuit court shall enter a decree of dissolution of marriage if * * * * * * (2) The court finds that there remains no reasonable likelihood that the marriage can be preserved and therefore the marriage is irretrievably broken; and * * * * * * 2. If a party requests a legal separation rather than a decree of dissolution of marriage, the court shall grant the decree in that form.””
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.