139 N.J. Super. 213 - Blitt v. Blitt’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 1999 · most notably 78 Ill. App. 3d 653 - In Re Marriage of Hunt (1979), Deering v. Deering (1981)
36 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 64 Cal. 2d 778 - See v. See · Painter v. Painter · Stern v. Stern · 136 N.J. Super. 397 - Scherzer v. Scherzer · 203 Cal. App. 2d 8 - Williamson v. Williamson
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to effectuate an equitable distribution of property, both real and personal which was legally and beneficially acquired by [the parties] or either of them during the marriage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“although not cash in hand, is not subject to a contingency, has a reasonably discernible value and awaits but the owner to take actual possession”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“does not lead to the conclusion that property has not been `acquired' within the meaning of the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.