Bachtle v. Bachtle’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2009
12 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 Ryan v. United States Lines Co. · Brown v. Pennsylvania Railroad · United States v. Scott · Jewell v. Division of Social Services · Wife F. v. Husband F.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) A decree or separate order entered under § 1518 of this title may be modified or terminated only as follows: ****** (3) Property disposition, only upon a showing of circumstances that would justify the opening or vacation of a judgment under the Rules of the Superior Court of this State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Campbell v. Campbell“[o]n motion and upon such terms as are just, the Court may relieve a party or legal representative from a final judgment, order or proceeding for the following reasons....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“any other reason justifying relief from the operation of the judgment.”
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.