Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 2017
15 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 Di Nofrio v. Di Nofrio · Rosenfeld v. Rosenfeld · DiNofrio v. DiNofrio · Orr v. Tanner · Simeone v. Simeone
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To justify an award of counsel fees to a wife in a divorce case she must show that her husband has a sufficient estate out of which such fees may be paid • and that she is without property of her own available for that purpose.” Id. at 21, 143 A.2d at 312 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Toy v. Toy
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.