139 N.J. Super. 207 - Richards v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 2001
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 Sleicher v. Sleicher · Gaines v. Jacobsen · Flaxman v. Flaxman · Berkely v. Berkely · Denberg v. Frischman
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.
“This court cannot see any reason to continue the disparate treatment of void and voidable marriages. In either case, the reasonable expectations of both the wife and the first husband are that the wife’s remarriage will be valid. The first husband should have a right to rely on that expectation. He should not be required to be forever “waiting in the wings” for a possible dissolution of the remarriage of his former wife. Certainly, when a former wife remarries, the divorced husband does not concern himself with any legal distinctions between void and voidable. She has married. He is free. In the interests of fairness, the last previous husband must be the source of the wife’s future financial security.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Glass v. Glass
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.