17 N.J. Super. 128 - Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably 33 N.J. Super. 566 - Utility Blade & Razor Co. v. Donovan (1955), 50 N.J. Super. 223 - State v. Moretti (1958)
62 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 Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Brandon v. Board of Commissioners of Montclair · Brandon v. Board of Commissioners · Hager v. Weber · State, Ex Rel. Beronio v. Pension Commission
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clearly unreasonable in the light of the accompanying and surrounding circumstances”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[As] the option which a judge may exercise between the doing and the not doing of a thing which cannot be demanded as an absolute legal right, guided by the spirit, principles and analogies of the law, and founded upon the reason and conscience of the judge, to a just result in the light of the particular circumstances of the case. 23 Words & Phrases 278; Brandon v. Board of Commissioners of Town of Montclair, 124 N.J.L. 135 [ 11 A.2d 304 ] (Sup.Ct. 1940); affirmed 125 N.J.L. 367 [ 15 A.2d 598 ] (E. & A. 1940); Beronio v. Pension Commission of Hoboken, 130 N.J.L. 620 [ 33 A.2d 855 ] (E. & A. 1943); Hoffman v. Maloratsky, 112 N.J.Eq. 333 [ 164 A. 260 ] (E. & A. 1933). [at 132, 85 A.2d 523 ]”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“But the inquiry always is, Has injustice been done? has the party been injured? * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.