Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Westech Engineering, Inc. v. Clearwater Constructors, Inc. (1992), Vannerson v. Vannerson (1993)
39 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 298th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on In Re King's Estate · Garza v. Alviar · Great American Reserve Insurance Co. v. Britton · McKinley v. Drozd · Flint & Associates v. Intercontinental Pipe & Steel, Inc.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a trial court grants an award of attorney’s fees without any evidence in the record to support such an award, the proper action on appeal is to remand that part of the judgment awarding attorney’s fees for a determination of the reasonableness of the amount of attorney’s fees to be awarded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.