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← 88 N.J. 4 - Kikkert v. Kikkert

Kikkert v. Kikkert’s Empirical Analysis

1981

Citation profile

81
cited by 81 later decisions
13
states following
July 2014
most recently cited

77 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably Krafick v. Krafick (1995), Bender v. Bender (2001)

77 state decisions — followed in 13 states

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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 McCarty v. McCarty · Painter v. Painter · Gibbons v. Gibbons · Stern v. Stern · Beck v. Beck

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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Alimony and child support can help maintain the income of both parties at a certain level over time by using one party’s income to support the other. However, the primary purpose of marital property distribution laws is not to compensate for changes in the parties’ fortunes after they have separated, but to achieve a fair distribution of what the parties ‘lawfully and beneficially acquired’ while they were together.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. LM v. State, Div. of Med. Assist. & Health Serv.
  2. “The right to receive monies in the future is unquestionably... an economic resource subject to equitable distribution based on proper computation of its present dollar value.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. Fuentes v. Fuentes
  3. “legally and beneficially acquired during the marriage.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. 222 N.J. Super. 36 - Whitfield v. Whitfield

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.