Bunche v. Bunche’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
138 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably In re Baby Girl B. (1992), Darak v. Darak (1989)
138 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 Sanchione v. Sanchione · Snow v. Calise · Viglione v. Viglione · Fricke v. Fricke
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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A party moving for a modification of a child support order must clearly and definitely establish the occurrence of a substantial change in the circumstances of either party that makes the continuation of the prior order unfair and improper.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]y its terms [§ 46b-81] deprives the Superior Court of continuing jurisdiction over that portion of a dissolution judgment providing for the assignment of property of one party to the other party under... § 46b-81.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he court's judgment in an action for [the] dissolution of a marriage is final and binding [on] the parties ... unless and to the extent that statutes, the common law or rules of [practice] permit the setting aside or modification of that judgment”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Broaca v. Broaca · Reinke v. Sing
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.