Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 2018
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 M_ L_ B v. W_ R_ B · Hornback v. Hornback
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.
““In the instant case there has never been an evidentiaiy hearing, much less a finding, that [the child] would be endangered in any manner by visiting her father in prison. The issue of visitation has never been addressed on the merits and the decree of dissolution merely reserved the issue for later adjudication. “Moreover, interpreting the decree as barring any attempt to seek visitation until [father] secures his freedom would constitute total deprivation of his rights to visitation, as [his child] will be emancipated before [father] becomes eligible for parole.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pence v. Pence““[I]t is inappropriate at this point to consider issues involving the parties’ children because of the Petitioner’s incarceration, all issues concerning the children having been previously reserved for consideration and decision upon Petitioner’s release.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pence v. Pence
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.