208 N.J. Super. 240 - Graf v. Graf’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2005
10 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 135 N.J. Super. 66 - Caldwell v. Township of Rochelle Park · 164 N.J. Super. 145 - State v. Ciuffini · 160 N.J. Super. 153 - Grange v. Grange · 166 N.J. Super. 546 - Castonguay v. Castonguay · 165 N.J. Super. 463 - Witt v. Witt
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Pending any matrimonial action ... or after judgment of divorce or maintenance ... the court may make such order as to the alimony or maintenance of the parties, and also as to the care, custody, education and maintenance of the children, or any of them, as the circumstances of the parties and the nature of the case shall render fit, reasonable and just.... [Emphasis supplied.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“unduly restrictive, contrary to the broad discretionary powers of a court of equity and generally unfair.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pelow v. Pelow
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.