Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 1952
15 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 Smith v. Kimball
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled in this state that the prayer of the petition forms no part of it, and that relief may be granted in accordance with the facts stated in the petition rather than pursuant to its prayer.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Webster v. Broeker
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.