Bitner v. Bitner’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 1989
21 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 Deal v. State · Parkison v. Thompson · Mead v. Burk · Davis v. Babb · 113 Ind. App. 245 - Workman v. Workman
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is also the law that in a divorce proceeding if the wife has either funds or credit sufficient for the purposes of her defense and her present support it is improper for the court to require the husband to furnish money for such purposes pending the litigation. (And cases cited)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Pending a petition for divorce, the court, or the judge thereof in vacation, may make, and by attachment enforce, such orders for the disposition of the persons, property and children of the parties as may be deemed right and proper and such orders relative to the expenses of such suit and attorney fees as will insure to the wife an efficient preparation of her case and a fair and impartial trial thereof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ . . . Whether there was necessity for such an allowance, or for temporary alimony is a question within the sound discretion of the trial court, . . . ’ ” (And cases cited) (Emphasis added).”
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.