Baumgarten v. Baumgarten’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 1953
11 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 Calame v. Calame · Sobel v. Sobel · 99 N.J. Eq. 461 - Greenberg v. Greenberg · Freund v. Freund · Rigney v. Rigney
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'“It is one thing for a wife to express her willingness to accept a certain sum in lieu of alimony, and quite another for the court to ascertain and adjudge that the sum is suitable and adequate for her support.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parmly v. Parmly“a present and continuing offense is * * * the basis of a decree for separate maintenance. Defendant still abandons his wife. The continuance of the offense raises anew his obligation to support her.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.