Walentowski v. Walentowski’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently July 2003 · most notably Bender v. Bender (2001), Swink v. Fingado (1993)
50 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1408
Relies on McCarty v. McCarty · LeClert v. LeClert · Cameron v. Cameron · 142 Cal. App. 3d 350 - In Re Marriage of Hopkins · De Gryse v. De Gryse
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`removing the federal pre-emption found to exist'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The legislative intent [of the Former Spouses’ Protection Act] was to abrogate all applications of the McCarty decision and place the courts into a pro-McCarty position. * * * [W]e alter * * * Psomas and conclude that there is sufficient legislative intent shown to hold the Act retroactively applies beginning June 25, 1981.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A court may treat disposable retired or retainer pay payable to a member for pay periods beginning after June 25, 1981, [the day prior to the McCarty decision] either as property solely of the member or as property of the member and his spouse in accordance with the law of the jurisdiction of such court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hennessy v. Duryea
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.