Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 103 Wis. 2d 327 - Holbrook v. Holbrook · Dugan v. Dugan · 98 Ill. App. 3d 380 - In Re Marriage of White · 27 Or. App. 729 - In Re the Dissolution of the Marriage of Goger · Heller v. Heller
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he concept of professional goodwill eva-nesces when one attempts to distinguish it from future earning capacity. Although a professional business’s good reputation, which is essentially what its goodwill consists of, is certainly a thing of value, we do not believe that it bestows on those who have an ownership interest in the business, an actual, separate property interest.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Mocnik v. Mocnik · Koch v. Koch
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.