155 N.J. Super. 196 - Stout v. Stout’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 2018
23 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 State v. Johnson · Painter v. Painter · 131 N.J. Super. 72 - Di Tolvo v. Di Tolvo · Khalaf v. Khalaf · Capodanno v. Capodanno
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he word `equitable' itself implies the weighing of the many considerations and circumstances that are presented in each case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he advance determination by the court of an automatic increase in alimony is contrary to established principles relating to alimony and the modification thereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here should not be an automatic decrease or cessation of the payment of alimony based on a future event.”
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.