Bartlett v. Bartlett’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Krafick v. Krafick (1995), Simmons v. Simmons (1998)
72 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 Rubin v. Rubin · Valante v. Valante · Carpenter v. Carpenter · Eslami v. Eslami · Cummock v. Cummock
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person's right of inheritance vests at the moment of the decedent's death,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The same criteria that determine an initial award of alimony are relevant to the question of modification and these require the court to consider, without limitation, the needs and financial resources of each of the parties, as well as such factors as health, age and station in life. General Statutes 46b-88 (formerly 46-52)."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“. . . a substantial increase in wealth of any sort may form an appropriate ground for a motion to modify alimony.”
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.