Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2016
12 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 Newell v. Hinton · Posner v. Posner · Frey v. Frey · Osborne v. Osborne · 231 So. 2d 793 - Harrell v. Harrell
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However, this Court imposed the requirement of fairness in the execution of such contracts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The first rule of interpretation of contracts is to follow the intent of the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jordan v. Jordan“the restriction on enforceability encompassed a duty of disclosure.”
1 later decision 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.