Smith v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably 700 So. 2d 274 - Wright v. Stanley (1997), 682 So. 2d 374 - Touchstone v. Touchstone (1996)
51 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 Culbreath v. Johnson · 515 So. 2d 1183 - Mullins v. Ratcliff · Cooper v. Crabb · 445 So. 2d 815 - House v. State · 549 So. 2d 1309 - Bowers Window & Door Co. v. Dearman
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he prerequisites to a child custody modification are: (1) proving a material change in circumstances which adversely affects the welfare of the child and (2) finding that the best interest of the child requires the change of custody.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“this Court will not reverse a Chancery Court's factual findings, be they of ultimate fact or of evidentiary fact, where there is substantial evidence in the record supporting these findings of fact.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“This Court will not disturb the findings of a chancellor when supported by substantial evidence unless the chancellor abused his discretion, was manifestly wrong, clearly erroneous or an erroneous legal standard was applied.”
5 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.