W. v. H.’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 1994
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 46 N.J. Super. 284 - Sobel v. Sobel
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is against the policy of the court to grant permission to resume a maiden name where unemancipated children who bear a different name are involved”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“father's right to have his progeny bear his name.”
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.