Painter v. Painter’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 225 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 259 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Lepis v. Lepis (1980), Alan J. Cornblatt, PA v. Barow (1998)
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 225 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 United States v. National Dairy Products Corp. · Case v. Los Angeles Lumber Products Co. · Securities & Exchange Commission v. United States Realty & Improvement Co. · Fernandez v. Wiener · Rothman v. Rothman
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 259 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to effectuate an equitable distribution of the property, both real and personal, which was legally and beneficially acquired by them or either of them during the marriage.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[F]or purposes of determining what property will be eligible for distribution the period of acquisition should be deemed to terminate the day the complaint is filed.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“... the income or other usufruct derived from such property, as well as any asset for which the original property may be exchanged or into which it, or the proceeds of its sale, may be traceable shall similarly be considered the separate property of the particular spouse. [ Painter v. Painter, supra, 65 N.J. at 214 ].”
8 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.