Thiel v. Thiel’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently July 1997 · most notably 457 F. Supp. 1146 - Cartledge v. Miller (1978), 69 Cal. 2d 7 - Ogle v. Heim (1968)
2 district · 24 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 3 E.H. Smith 520 - Wetmore v. . Wetmore · Schlaefer v. Schlaefer · Bonanno v. Bonanno · Fischer v. Fischer · Plunkett v. Board of Pension Commissioners
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * The purpose of exemptions is to relieve the person exempted from the pressure of claims hostile not only to his own essential needs but also to those of his dependents. But the purpose cannot be one relieving him of familial obligations, perhaps destroying what may be the family’s last word and only security, short of public relief. . . . Moreover, if we were to uphold his claim of exemption, we would ‘feed the husband, and starve the wife.’ ” 41 N, J. at 451, 197 A. 2d at 357-58 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No assignment of any pension will be recognized or permitted nor shall any pension or payment on account of any pension be subject to attachment, execution or other legal process against the PENSIONER.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A man's duty to support his family is one of the highest obligations in our social order.... The obligation is such that even though he may not be able to work, if he has other means, he is required to apply them equitably in the discharge of this duty.”
2 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.