20 N.J. Super. 522 - Devine v. Devine’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2017
15 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 Virginian Ry Co v. System Federation No 40 · Citizens Coach Co. v. Camden Horse Railroad · Grobart v. Grobart · Mayer v. Journeymen Stonecutters' Ass'n · John R. Thompson v. Delicatessen
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Just how the court could enforce such an order, were an injunction granted, is not clear and the enforcement of such an injunction would appear to present insurmountable difficulties. Communications between a mother and son would ordinarily be private and confidential and not open to inspection or examination. Equity has always regarded the problem of enforcing its judgment or decree as an important factor in determining whether injunctive relief is appropriate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gaines v. Doby
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.