Lief v. Lief’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 1995
18 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 Duss v. Duss · 83 N.J. Eq. 300 - Staley v. South Jersey Realty Co. · 117 N.J. Eq. 123 - Miller v. McCutcheon · Hayes v. . Hayes · Plahn v. Givernaud
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every preceding order in the suit is terminated upon entry of the final decree unless there be an express reservation. It must be assumed that the decree settles and disposes of the whole controversy between the parties and of everything incidental' or ancillary thereto. [Citing cases.]”
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.