Mackowski v. Mackowski’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2015
19 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 148 N.J. Super. 267 - Lavene v. Lavene · 186 N.J. Super. 321 - Fusco v. Fusco · 196 N.J. Super. 487 - Wilke v. Culp · 101 N.J. Super. 259 - Tancredi v. Tancredi · Filippone v. Lee
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I did not order a hearing because the hearing would basically come down to Melanie having again to testify against her mother as to why she should live with her father. That type of hearing, I find, from the facts that I have before me, and I pretty much adopt the facts contained within the certification of Charlotte Mackowski, would be very harmful to the ... whole situation, to the mother and father and to the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“While such a view may have surface allure, in reality, it is both too narrow and, ultimately, unfair to the child. In making a determination as to an award of custody, or in this case a change in custody, a judge is charged with considering the factors set forth in N.J.S.A. 9:2-4, including an assessment of”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“available. Our rules presently provide an opportunity for a custody investigation which may well include an analysis by a mental health professional. See R. 5:8-1; R. 5:3-3. But there is a more important practical concern. Too often, judges deciding issues in the Family Part must rely solely on the”
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.