115 N.J. Super. 165 - Shilowitz v. Shilowitz’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2007
11 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 Fidelity Union Trust Co. v. Robert · In re the Accounting of Hubbell · Germann v. Matriss · State v. Otis Elevator Co. · Sunset Beach Amusement Corp. v. Belk
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.
“In order for an attorney to be entitled to compensation for his services from a `fund in court' he must have aided directly in creating, preserving or protecting the fund. (citation omitted). He is not entitled to such an award if his client sues merely for his own interest or benefit.”
2 later decisions 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.