In re Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently November 1951
3 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 Roe v. Roe · Mitchell v. Mitchell · Johnston v. Johnston
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Ida K. Smith as plaintiff procured a judgment of divorce against her husband, the present petitioner, which contained a recital that all questions relating to alimony, suit money, attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of suit, and advancements of money had been amicably settled between the parties. Therefore no judgment other than as described was rendered concerning the subjects of the settlement. Afterward the plaintiff instituted proceedings for a modification of the judgment respecting matters involved in the settlement, alleging that plaintiff’s assent to the arrangement had been procured by false and fraudulent representations of the petitioner and his attorney. The court found against certain of the charges of fraud, but sustained others, and modified the judgment by awarding the plaintiff alimony, fixing the time and manner in which it should be paid and taxing the petitioner with the costs of the divorce suit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rush v. Rush““The defendant’s dishonesty having left its mark upon that portion of the judgment only which undertook to respond to the plaintiff’s claim for alimony, that portion alone needed purging. The provision divorcing the parties was not tainted and there was no reason for disturbing it. If the reason for attacking the judgment had been furnished by some fact which touched upon the court’s authority to proceed at all, the judgment would have stood or would have fallen as an entirety, as in the Lewis case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Le Baron v. Le Baron
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.