Duffy v. Duffy’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 federal appellate · 22 state decisions

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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In this State executions to collect arrears of alimony or maintenance issue out of Chancery only upon the special order of the Chancellor. R. S. 2:29-58, N. J. S. A. 2:29-58, provides that an abstract of a Chancery decree may become a lien on lands if filed and recorded in the Supreme Court, but it has been held that a decree for alimony payable in future instalments is not such a money decree as will provide the basis of the lien. An order fixing the arrearages must be secured, and an abstract of such order filed and recorded. Rooney v. Rooney, 102 N. J. L. 551; 133 Atl. Rep. 752 . Executions at law to collect alimony arrearages have never otherwise been permitted in New Jersey. In this respect our practice is essentially at variance with that in New York in the important respect pointed out by Chief Justice White in the Sistare case:””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 2 N.J. Super. 268 - Bowery Savings Bank v. Rillo · Hamilton v. Hamilton

2. ““. . . That the court may infer from the circumstances surrounding a. given case that the parties have made some arrangement between themselves with respect to support, or that complainant has acquiesced in defendant’s default or has waived her strict rights under an alimony or maintenance decree, where she has failed for a long period of time to resort to the court, has long been settled law. The ecclesiastical courts would not ordinarily enforce arrearages of alimony beyond one year, a rule which has met with approval in our own decisions [citing numerous cases].””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 209 N.J. Super. 559 - Dunne v. Dunne · Hamilton v. Hamilton

3. ““The decision of the Supreme Court in the Lynde case is direct authority to the effect that under our statute as it was in the year 1900 (and it has not since been changed on that point) this court has authority to modify or vacate its alimony and maintenance decrees as to overdue and unpaid installments. * * * ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Salmeri v. Salmeri