Newburgh v. Arrigo’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 152 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 170 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Miller v. Miller (1984), 550 So. 2d 986 - Ex Parte Bayliss (1989)
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 152 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Lepis v. Lepis · Painter v. Painter · O'KEEFFE v. Snyder · Kozlowski v. Kozlowski · 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 170 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“These considerations impel me to urge that the controversy in this case be resolved by the application of equitable principles which focus solely and sharply upon the actual conduct of parties in resolving the merits of the central issue. The unerring focus of equity upon party conduct, I submit, is uniquely appropriate for the resolution of matrimonial disputes and especially conducive toward reaching the fair, sound, and right disposition — that elusive ultimate end that is often so difficult to identify and demonstrate in matrimonial causes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Miller v. Miller“This Court has frequently explicated our public policy concerning matrimony and divorce in a wide variety of contexts. The source of that policy is the Divorce Act of 1972, N.J.S.A. 2A:34-1 et seq. The polestar of that policy is fairness, equity, flexibility and solicitous concern for the welfare and happiness of the individuals involved. [ Newburgh v. Arrigo, 88 N.J. 529, 552-53 , 443 A. 2d 1031 (1982) (collecting cases)].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.