Hatten v. Hatten’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2023
11 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 Wanberg v. Wanberg · Schanck v. Schanck · Gravel v. Alaskan Village, Inc. · Alaskan Village, Inc. v. Smalley Ex Rel. Smalley · Wood v. Collins
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.
“On motion and upon such terms as are just, the court may relieve a party or a party’s legal representative from a final judgment, order, or proceeding for the following reasons: [[Image here]] (6) any other reason justifying relief from the operation of the judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lacher v. Lacher“will not be disturbed unless clearly erroneous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grace v. Peterson
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.