Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2019
20 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 New York Life Insurance v. Dunlevy · In the Matter of the Indiana Transportation Company · Rhodes v. Miller · Century Distilling Co. v. Continental Distilling Co. · Hollingshead v. Hollingshead
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We determine that, irrespective of whether appellant was a necessary or proper party to the proceeding to vacate the final decree, she was entitled to notice of the application, as one whose rights as a wife have been injuriously affected by the order vacating the final decree of divorce, and that she is entitled to complain of the fraud practiced upon the court and upon herself, and, by her cross-complaint in equity, have the said order set aside and annulled.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moore v. Moore“where statutes in force required [the party] to seek his relief in another way”
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.