254 N.J. Super. 350 - Deegan v. Deegan’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Bogan v. Bogan (2001), Marriage of Little v. Little (1999)
34 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 Lepis v. Lepis · 66 Wash. 2d 503 - Lambert v. Lambert · 77 Ill. App. 3d 858 - In Re Marriage of Smith · Smith v. Smith · Ellis v. Ellis
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]ven in a case in which the retiring spouse has been shown to have acted in good faith and has advanced entirely rational reasons for his or her actions, the trial judge will be required to decide one pivotal issue: whether the advantage to the retiring spouse substantially outweighs the disadvantage to the payee spouse. [ Ibid. ].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“has the virtue of simplicity, but little else.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the question of what standard should apply in determining whether unanticipated early retirement, or any other voluntary life style alteration, constitutes a change in circumstances warranting a support modification....”
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.