Bachus v. Bachus’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Lively v. Lively (1953), Seaton v. Seaton (1953)
2 federal appellate · 77 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 Pryor v. Pryor · McCue v. McCue · Beasley v. Haney · Rosewater v. Schwab Clothing Co. · Berlin v. Cantrell
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.
“The parties to a divorce action may agree upon the alimony or maintenance to be paid. Although the court is not bound by the litigants’ contract, nevertheless if the court approves the settlement and awards support money upon that basis there is then no power to modify the decree at a later date.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“as alimony and support for their four children.”
1 later decision 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.