102 N.J. Eq. 552 - Murphy v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 1953
5 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 Calame v. Calame · Sobel v. Sobel · 54 N.J. Eq. 473 - Lynde v. Lynde
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It may well be, although we do not so decide, that a husband may be liable, in a common law suit , to unpaid creditors who have supplied necessaries for the support of his minor children whose custody has been awarded to their mother under an alimony order for their support , which, under unexpected extraordinary circumstances, has proved insufficient.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.