Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 2011
8 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1738A
Relies on Thompson v. Thompson · Clark v. Clark · 29 Or. App. 861 - Carson v. Carson · Funk v. MacAulay · Carson v. Carson
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has full and continuing jurisdiction, during the minority of the children, to periodically order and modify custody.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a) court of this state shall not exercise its jurisdiction under this chapter if at the time of filing the petition a proceeding concerning the custody of the child was pending in a court of another state exercising jurisdiction substantially in conformity with this chapter, unless the proceeding is stayed by the court of the other state because this state is a more appropriate forum or for other reasons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“was a more appropriate forum, it abused no discretion when it did not find itself to be an inconvenient forum and left the dispute where it began, in Indiana.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cabanaw v. Cabanaw
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.