231 N.J. Super. 31 - Mugan v. Mugan’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 2001
17 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 204 N.J. Super. 337 - Cressey v. Campus Chefs, Div. of CVI Serv., Inc.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he support order authorized by the act is intended to bridge the emergent situation and not to be a substitute for other more orderly procedures for support. Nor does it create support obligations which did not exist before. [Mugan, at 33.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“victim monetary compensation for losses suffered as a direct result of the act of domestic violence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.