Gardner v. Gardner’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably 2008 UT App 11 - Stonehocker v. Stonehocker (2008), Cohen v. Cohen (1996)
49 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 Dugan v. Dugan · In Re Marriage of Graham · Mahoney v. Mahoney · O'Brien v. O'Brien · 177 N.J. Super. 471 - Kikkert v. Kikkert
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'show that the court's judgment or decree follows logically from, and is supported by, the evidence. The findings should be sufficiently detailed and include enough subsidiary facts to disclose the steps by which the ultimate conclusion on each factual issue was reached.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Howell v. Howell · Summer v. Summer“An alimony award should, ... to the extent possible, equalize the parties' respective standards of living and maintain them at a level as close as possible to that standard of living enjoyed during the marriage.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Howell v. Howell · Child v. Child“[M]arital property `encompasses all of the assets of every nature possessed by the parties, whenever obtained and from whatever source derived... .'”
3 later decisions 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.