184 N.J. Super. 430 - Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2016
20 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 Lepis v. Lepis · Grotsky v. Grotsky · Martindell v. Martindell · Lynde v. Lynde · Khalaf v. Khalaf
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Pending any matrimonial action brought in this State or elsewhere, ... the court may make such order . .. as to the care ... and maintenance of the children, or any of them, as the circumstances of the parties and the nature of the case shall render fit, reasonable and just....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In these circumstances, equity cries out for some relief. The requirement that defendant obtain life insurance on his life or create a trust fund to guarantee future alimony payments is appropriate and plainly within the broad authority conferred upon a judge in a matrimonial action by the provisions of N.J.S.A. 2A:34-23 to make such order as to alimony and maintenance of the wife, either before or after judgment, as the circumstances of the parties and nature of the case shall render fit, reasonable and just, and to require reasonable security for the due observation of such order. [ Davis v. Davis, 184 N.J. Super. 430, 439 , 446 A. 2d 540 (App.Div. 1982).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Divorce: Provision in Decree that One Party Obtain or Maintain Life Insurance for Benefit of Other Party or Child,”
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.