150 N.J. Super. 509 - Bennett v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2003
9 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 Mimkon v. Ford · 140 N.J. Super. 91 - In Re Adoption of Child by M.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is nothing in this statute (N.J.S.A. 9:2-7) which asserts that a grandparent's rights of visitation are derivative.... The granting of such rights depends only on the determination by the court as to whether the order therefor is justified "as the best interest of the child may require."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.