Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably State in Interest of JJT (1994), Schoney v. Memorial Estates, Inc. (1993)
1 federal appellate · 28 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 Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation · 27 Cal. 3d 645 - Moffat v. Moffat · Matter of Estate of Bartell · Hogge v. Hogge · Maughan v. Maughan
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'to protect litigants from the burden of relitigating an identical issue with the same party or his [or her} privy and to promote judicial economy by preventing needless litigation'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'to reopen determinations if the moving party can demonstrate a substantial change in cireumstances' not contemplated by the decree itself,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"First, both cases must involve the same parties or their privies. Second, the claim that is alleged to be barred must have been presented in the first suit or must be one that could and should have been raised in the first action. Third, the first suit must have resulted in a final judgment on the merits."”
2 later decisions 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.