Carr v. Carr’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Dunphy v. Gregor (1994), Jacobitti v. Jacobitti (1994)
9 federal appellate · 82 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 Beatty v. . Guggenheim Exploration Co. · Lepis v. Lepis · Rothman v. Rothman · Painter v. Painter · Gibbons v. Gibbons
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... animates [both the equitable distribution statute and probate code] is that a spouse may acquire an interest in marital property by virtue of the mutuality of efforts during marriage that contribute to the creation, acquisition, and preservation of such property. This principle, primarily equitable in nature, is derived from notions of fairness, common decency, and good faith. Further, we are convinced that these laws do not reflect a legislative intent to extinguish the property entitlements of a spouse who finds himself or herself beyond the reach of either statute because the marriage has realistically but not legally ended at the time of the other's death. [ Id. at 349-350, 576 A. 2d 872 ; emphasis supplied; footnote omitted]”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“courts may presume that the parties `intended to deal fairly with one another [and will] employ the doctrine of quantum meruit, or equitable remedies such as constructive or resulting trusts' in order to ensure that one party has not been unjustly enriched, and the other unjustly impoverished, on account of their dealings.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... The Legislature has recognized that Courts' equitable powers are particularly appropriate in the context of domestic relations”
3 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.