129 N.J. Eq. 549 - Corbin v. Mathews’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1999 · most notably Harris v. Commissioner (1950), Lepis v. Lepis (1980)
21 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 Herrick v. Herrick · Adler v. Adler · 111 N.J. Eq. 529 - Apfelbaum v. Apfelbaum · 119 N.J. Eq. 462 - Phillips v. Phillips · 116 N.J. Eq. 101 - Second Nat. Bank of Paterson v. Curie
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We find that the contract between complainant and defendant became engrafted into the divorce decree to the extent that it took on the aspect of and became subject to the incidents of alimony. The agreement, in our opinion, merged with the decree for divorce, and the obligation to make the weekly payments therefore became a court order to pay alimony. The fact that the court took over the terms of the contract did not impair the power of the court to alter such provisions to accord with the equity of unfolding circumstance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““If after the decree of divorce the wife shall remarry, the court of chancery shall not make any order touching the alimony of such wife except that the court of chancery, upon application of the former husband, on notice and upon proof of the marriage of the former wife after the decree of divorce, must modify any order or decree touching the alimony of the former wife by vacating and annulling any and all provisions in any such order or decree, or both, directing the payment of money for the support of the former wife.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“came under the general class of agreements for maintenance where husband and wife are living apart.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lum v. Lum
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.