195 N.J. Super. 16 - Marschall v. Marschall’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably Simeone v. Simeone (1990), Hunte v. Blumenthal (1996)
41 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Judson v. Peoples Bank & Trust Co. of Westfield · Lepis v. Lepis · Del Vecchio v. Del Vecchio · Petersen v. Petersen · Posner v. Posner
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“agreement which would leave a spouse a public charge or close to it, or which would provide a standard of living far below that which was enjoyed both before and during the marriage would probably not be enforced by any court. See e.g., Newman v. Newman, 653 P. 2d 728 (Colo.Sup.Ct.1982).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“at least `to the extent that the parties have developed comprehensive and particularized agreements responsive to their peculiar circumstances.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“can properly be considered `known' only if there is full awareness of the other party's income and assets, since those facts are critical elements in determining the potential awards of alimony and equitable distribution which the signer of the agreement is being asked to `waive.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.