Murphy v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2001
8 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 42 Cal. 2d 55 - Flynn v. Flynn · Knox v. Remick · 116 N.J. Super. 546 - Schiff v. Schiff · Ruhsam v. Ruhsam · 55 N.J. Super. 273 - Flicker v. Chenitz
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.
“A decree or separate order entered under § 1518 of this title may be modified or terminated only as follows: [[Image here]] (4) Alimony or any other relief awarded, only upon a showing of real and substantial change of circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rockwell v. Rockwell
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.