Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

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.

1. ““In Grosskopf v. Grossfcopf, Wyo., 677 P.2d 814, 823 (1984), we said: “ ‘The trial court exercises a broad discretion in adjusting the rights and obligations of parties upon the dissolution of their marriage. We will not disturb the decision of the lower court unless we can say that the discretion was abused, that the result was clearly unjust and inequitable.’ “In Bacon v. Carey Company, Wyo., 669 P.2d 533, 534 (1983), this court said: “ ‘At trial, those matters that are left to the sound discretion of the trial court will not be upset on appeal absent a demonstrated abuse of discretion. The standard for determining whether the trial judge has abused his discretion is set out in Martinez v. State, Wyo., 611 P.2d 831, 838 (1980): “ ‘ “A court does not abuse its discretion unless it acts in a manner which exceeds the bounds of reason under the circumstances. In determining whether there has been an abuse of discretion, the ultimate issue is whether or not the court could reasonably conclude as it did. An abuse of discretion has been said to mean an error of law committed by the court under the circumstances. Eager v. Derowitsch, 68 Wyo. 251 , 232 P.2d 713 (1951); Anderson v. Englehart, 18 Wyo. 409 , 108 P. 977 (1910).” ’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Crawford v. Crawford