Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Tech Hills II Associates v. Phoenix Home Life Mutual Insurance · Chmil v. Rulisa Operating Co. · Wynfield Inns v. Edward Leroux Group, Inc. · In re Electric Power & Light Corp. · Albright v. Oyster
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a litigant who accepts the benefits or any substantial part of the benefits of a judgment or decree is thereby estopped from reviewing and escaping from its burdens.”
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.