49 N.J. Super. 219 - Fiore v. Fiore’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably 129 N.J. Super. 486 - In Re Js & C. (1974), 196 N.J. Super. 487 - Wilke v. Culp (1984)
28 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 Daly v. Daly · Capone v. Norton · 12 N.J. Super. 350 - Bruguier v. Bruguier · 5 N.J. Super. 392 - Turney v. Nooney · 11 N.J. Super. 189 - Capone v. Norton
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The welfare of the child is the primary, paramount and controlling consideration in determining the question of visitation and custody of a minor child. The legal rights and claims of either parent and the wishes and personal desires of said parent must yield, if opposed to what the court, in the discharge of its duty, regards the welfare of the child to be."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`insuring that the children shall not only retain the love of both parents, but shall be at all times and constantly deeply imbued with love and respect for both parents.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“strain every effort to attain for the child the affection of both parents rather than one.”
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.