Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1847
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1955
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.
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.
“On the day of the marriage between the complainant and her late husband, and just before the marriage, he, without the knowledge of the intended wife, for the consideration of one dollar, conveyed certain real estate to trustees, in trust for his own use during his life, and, after his death, in trust to receive the rents and pay them to his daughter Mary, a daughter by a former wife, during her life, and, after her death, in trust for his three sons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wildeman v. Wildeman
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.