Hirtle v. Hirtle’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
109 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably Heyman Associates No. 1 v. Insurance Co. of Pennsylvania (1995), Mazziotti v. Allstate Insurance (1997)
109 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 United States v. Euge · Barnard v. Barnard · Monroe v. Monroe · Kenworthy v. Kenworthy · Steve Viglione Sheet Metal Co. v. Sakonchick
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The principles that govern motions to open or set aside a civil judgment are well established. Within four months of the date of the original judgment, Practice Book Sec. 326 vests discretion in the trial court to determine whether there is a good and compelling reason for its modification or vacation. [Citations omitted.]”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage“Unless otherwise provided by law and except in such cases in which the court has continuing jurisdiction, any civil judgment or decree rendered in the superior court may not be opened or set aside unless a motion to open or set aside is filed within four months succeeding the date on which it was rendered or passed.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“If [an agreement concerning the custody, care, education, visitation, maintenance or support of any of their children] is in writing and provides for the care, education, maintenance or CT Page 13364 support of a child beyond the age of eighteen, it may . . . be incorporated or otherwise made a part of [the court's] order and shall be enforceable to the same extent as any other provision of such order or decree, notwithstanding the provision of such order or decree, notwithstanding the provisions of section 1-1d .”
2 later decisions 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.