Foster v. Foster’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Durrett v. Durrett (1963), 55 N.J. Super. 273 - Flicker v. Chenitz (1959)
23 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 Eaton v. Davis · Wilson v. . Hinman · Barnes v. American Fertilizer Co. · Storey v. Storey · Blades v. Szatai
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““pay to the plaintiff $125.00 each month for alimony until her death or remarriage, in either of which events said payments shall cease and no longer be a charge against defendant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The jurisdiction of divorce causes is purely statutory, and the court possesses no powers in such cases involving matters of property beyond those conferred by statute, * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Worrell
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.