Winter v. Winter’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 1998
12 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 Griffin v. Griffin · Barber v. Barber · Chalmers v. Chalmers · Martindell v. Martindell · Bucino v. Malone
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“after the wife's remarriage: * * * except that upon application of the former husband * * * the court shall modify any order or judgment as to the alimony of the former wife by vacating and annulling any and all provisions in any such order or judgment, or both, directing the payment of money for the support of the former wife.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Winter v. Winter“After the remarriage of a former wife, N.J.S.A. 2A:34-25 would prevent that spouse from recovering arrearages that accrued prior to her remarriage which had not been reduced to judgment previously.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Orders so made may be revised and altered by the court from time to time as circumstances may require.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Winter v. Winter
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.