Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 2013
6 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 70 Ill. App. 3d 609 - In Re Support of Halford · Oklahoma Water Resources Board v. Central Oklahoma Master Conservancy District · Dickason v. Dickason · 80 Cal. App. 3d 629 - In Re Marriage of Leib · 374 So. 2d 348 - Parish v. Parish
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Vaughn v. Osborne, 103 Okl. 59 , 229 P. 467, 470 [1924]. “A ‘vested right’ is the power to do certain actions or possess certain things lawfully, and is substantially a property right. It may be created either by common law, statute or by contract. Once created, it becomes absolute, and is protected from legislative invasion by Art. 5, Secs. 52 and 54 of our Constitution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“vested.” Vaughn v. Osborne, 103 Okl. 59 , 229 P. 467, 470 [1924].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Mayhue v. Mayhue
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.