Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2009
8 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 Jones v. Jones · Acton v. Deliran · Gardner v. Gardner · Paffel v. Paffel · Olson v. Olson
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clear, uncontroverted, and capable of supporting ouly a finding in favor of the judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Tin divoree actions, the trial court has considerable discretion in adjusting the financial and property interests of the parties, and we will not disturb its decision unless it is clearly unjust or a clear abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[1] the financial conditions and needs of the wife; [2] the ability of the wife to produce a sufficient income for herself; and [3] the ability of the husband to provide support.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wells v. Wells
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.