McNutt v. Beaty’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 2003
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 Sweeney v. Tritsch · Bell v. Bell · Johnson v. Gerald · 80 N.J. Eq. 429 - Kuntz v. Kuntz · Murphy v. Murphy
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.
“[W]e hold that reconciliation between the parties to a divorce abrogates the cause of action; the suit as a legal proceeding no longer exists. After reconciliation no order or judgment may be entered awarding attorneys’ fees and, in most cases, no order of any kind will be allowed other than one dismissing the case. Bell v. Bell, 214 Ala. at 575 , 108 So. at 378 , quoting Kuntz v. Kuntz, 80 N.J.Eq. 429, 83 A. 787 (1912). See Annot., 92 A.L.R.2d 1009 , 1014 (1963). (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. James v. James“a *Page 413 judgment is void if the court rendering it lacks jurisdiction over the subject matter or of the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.