Bitner v. Hull’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 2011
6 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 DeHaan v. DeHaan · Mitchell v. Stevenson · Dusenberry v. Dusenberry · 169 Ind. App. 530 - Wilson v. Wilson · Wabash Railway Co. v. Todd
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]ourts of this State have long had power, both inherent and statutory, to entertain actions to determine whether a judgment has been carried out and satisfied”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Evans v. Evans · Grubnich v. Renner“Wife was awarded both the thrift equity and the RSR thrift equity fund money, yet none of it had been turned over to her.... Unless the court took action, its decree would not be heeded. Thus ... the trial court exercised its inherent power to make such orders as were necessary to enforce its prior decree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[r]ather than being an alteration of the dissolution decree, Wife's petition was merely an enforcement mechanism . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Evans v. Evans
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.