Botner v. Botner’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2024
22 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 Sullivan v. Quist · Hummel v. Mid Dakota Clinic, P.C. · Eberhart v. Eberhart · State Ex Rel. Sprynczynatyk v. Mills · Johnson v. Johnson
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen a stipulation is incorporated into a divorce judgment, we are concerned only with interpretation and enforcement of the judgment, not with the underlying contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holbach v. Holbach“[A] settlement agreement that is wholly incorporated into the divorce judgment is merged into that judgment and ceases to be independently viable or enforceable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holbach v. Holbach
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.