124 N.J. Eq. 481 - Meyer v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 1960
2 district · 7 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 Fretz v. Roth · 111 N.J. Eq. 454 - Reeves v. Weber · Farrow v. Farrow · Beck v. Beck · Fretz v. Roth
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.
“At common law, a gift by a husband to his wife was ordinarily void, though in equity the gift was upheld if deemed a reasonable provision for her. But a husband's deed of all his property to his wife was inoperative in equity as in law, for it went beyond a reasonable provision. 2 Story Eq. Jur., § 1374 , quoted in Fretz v. Roth, 70 N.J. Eq. 764 . I do not know whether a husband's gift of all his property to his wife, fully proved, and imposition and mistake absent, would nowadays be held void; but the policy which underlies the rule stated in Story has still sufficient vitality to require the wife definitely to prove donative intent. Banking the money in her account is not enough.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gentile v. Gentile
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.