Torres v. Torres’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 1 (Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2008) · 26 U.S.C. § 401 (Self-Employed Individuals Tax Retirement Act of 1962) · 26 U.S.C. § 411 (§ 1012 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 26 U.S.C. § 414 (§ 1015 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 26 U.S.C. § 417 · 28 U.S.C. § 1738 · 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1002 (§ 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Trw Inc v. Adelaide Andrews · Boggs v. Boggs · United States v. Bestfoods · Roxas v. Marcos · Anastasoff v. United States
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the family court disregarded rules or principles of law or practice to the substantial detriment of a party litigant; (2) the family court failed to exercise its equitable discretion; or (3) the family court's decision clearly exceeds the bounds of reason.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]s long as ERISA's qualification requirements are met, any DRO permissible under state domestic relations law should be binding upon a pension plan.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no conceptual reason why a QDRO must be obtained before the plan participant's benefits become payable on account of his retirement or death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.