Reese v. Weis’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Rova Farms Resort, Inc. v. Investors Insurance Co. of America · State v. Johnson · Manalapan Realty v. Township Committee of the Township of Manalapan · Cesare v. Cesare · Lepis v. Lepis
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rests upon its own particular footing and the appellate court must give due recognition to the wide discretion[,] which our law rightly affords to the trial judges who deal with these matters.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“guided by the spirit, principles and analogies of the law, and founded upon the reason and conscience of the judge, to a just result in the light of the particular circumstances of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Legislature's use of the term permanent alimony is a misnomer in the sense that the award is not everlasting[;]”
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.