Devaney v. L'ESPERANCE’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
September 2014
most recently cited
2 district · 10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 18 Cal. 3d 660 - Marvin v. Marvin · Cesare v. Cesare · Crowe v. De Gioia · Kozlowski v. Kozlowski · Yilmaz, Inc. v. Director, Division of Taxation
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.
“in which people committed to each other, foregoing other liaisons and opportunities, doing for each other whatever each is capable of doing, providing companionship, and fulfilling each other's needs, financial, emotional, physical, and social, as best as they are able. And each couple defines its way of life and each partner's expected contribution to it in its own way.... [ Roccamonte, supra, 174 N.J. at 392-93 , 808 A. 2d 838 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the formation of a marital-type relationship between unmarried persons may, legitimately and enforceably, rest upon a promise by one to support the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he entry into [a marital-type] relationship and then conducting oneself in accordance with its unique character is consideration”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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