Connell v. Connell’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably 348 N.J. Super. 560 - Isaacson v. Isaacson (2002), 149 Md. App. 1 - Smith v. Freeman (2002)
27 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 · Pascale v. Pascale · 245 N.J. Super. 124 - Zazzo v. Zazzo · 228 N.J. Super. 346 - Weitzman v. Weitzman · 245 N.J. Super. 354 - Aronson v. Aronson
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Children are also entitled to share in the good fortune of their parents to meet their needs in accordance with the lifestyle of their parents. Italiano v. Rudkin (Italiano), 294 N.J.Super. 502, 506 , 683 A. 2d 854 (App.Div.1996); Walton v. Visgil, 248 N.J.Super. 642, 649-650 , 591 A. 2d 1018 (App.Div.1991); Zazzo v. Zazzo, 245 N.J.Super. 124, 130 , 584 A. 2d 281 (App.Div.1990), certif. denied, 126 N.J. 321 , 598 A. 2d 881 (1991).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he peculiar facts of each case must be carefully weighed to achieve fairness and balance in considering a [spouse's] inheritance.”
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.