Shealy v. Shealy’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2018
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 Townes Associates, Ltd. v. City of Greenville · Nienow v. Nienow · Powers v. Powers · Poniatowski v. Poniatowski · 128 N.J. Super. 285 - Meerwarth v. Meerwarth
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.
“encouraged to make final dispositions of property interests whe[n] possible or, in the alternative, cite compelling reasons for awarding fractional or joint interests”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Smith“[i]t is a well settled proposition of law that a former wife who is entitled to alimony has an insurable interest in her former husband's life.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hopkins v. Hopkins
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.