1 N.J. Super. 234 - Seitz v. Seitz’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 1977
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 Richards v. Collins · 97 N.J. Eq. 517 - Lippincott v. Lippincott · State v. Gruich · 138 N.J. Eq. 140 - Isserman v. Isserman · 137 N.J. Eq. 271 - In Re R.L.
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.
“Neither father nor mother has a greater right than the other to the custody of their child, and in a contest between them, the happiness and welfare of the child is the determining factor. R.S. 9:2-4. Richards v. Collins, 45 N.J. Eq. 284 ( E. & A. 1889); Lippincott v. Lippincott, 97 N.J. Eq. 517 ( E. & A. 1925); In re R.L., 137 N.J. Eq. 271 , (Jayne, V.C., 1945). Children of tender years are not awarded to the mother because of any rule of law, but only because in fact the mother will usually take better and more expert care of a small child than can the father. But the problem in every case is the same, What will promote the happiness and welfare of the child?”
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.