Griffith v. Griffith’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 2022
10 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 177 N.J. Super. 471 - Kikkert v. Kikkert · Woodward v. Woodward · Gardner v. Gardner · Howell v. Howell · Haumont v. Haumont
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.
“[The goal of imputing income is to prevent parents from reducing their child support or alimony by purposeful unemployment or underemployment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[alwarding retirement benefits solely to the employee spouse comports with the goal of allowing the parties to make as much of a clean break from each other as is reasonably possible”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kidd v. Kidd“the court noted that there was no financial need for fees as both parties were gainfully employed and had approximately equal post-divorce income”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kimball v. Kimball
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.