Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 2008
6 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 Burke v. Burke · Boyle v. Boyle · Bown v. Loveland · Jackson v. Jackson · Workman v. Workman
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.
“Premarital property, gifts, and inheritances may be viewed as separate property, and in appropriate circumstances, equity will require that each party retain the separate property brought to the marriage. However, the rule is not invariable. In fashioning an equitable property division, trial courts need consider all of the pertinent circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bailey v. Bailey“[p]arol evidence is admissible to show the purpose and intent of parties to a deed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mattes v. Olearain
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.