Tevis v. Tevis’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably Twyman v. Twyman (1993), Gantes v. Kason Corp. (1996)
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 50 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 Carey v. Piphus · Henningsen v. Bloomfield Motors, Inc. · Podell v. United States · Lopez v. Swyer · Rothman v. Rothman
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Since the circumstances of the marital tort and its potential for money damages were relevant in the matrimonial proceedings, the claim should not have been held in abeyance; it should, under the `single controversy' doctrine, have been presented in conjunction with that action as part of the overall dispute between the parties in order to lay at rest all their legal differences in one proceeding and avoid the prolongation and fractionalization of litigation. " (emphasis added)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when a party is either unaware that he has sustained an injury or, although aware that an injury has occurred, he does not know that it is, or may be, attributable to the fault of another.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he abolition of the doctrine pertained to tortious conduct generally encompassing not only conventional negligence but also intentional acts, as well as other forms of excessive behavior such as gross negligence, recklessness, wantonness, and the like. The only kind of marital conduct excepted from the abolition was that involving marital or nuptial privileges, consensual acts and simple, common domestic negligence, to be defined and developed on a case-by-case approach. [ Tevis v. Tevis, 79 N.J. 422, 426-27 , 400 A. 2d 1189 (1979) (citation omitted).]”
3 later decisions 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.