Schweitzer v. Burch’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2012
20 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 6 Cal. 3d 461 - Waite v. Waite · Copeland v. Copeland · State v. Rickerson · Sweenhart v. Co-Con, Inc.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he inequality would be compounded if the employee spouse died first, having received only a portion of his or her divided share but having paid the ex-spouse the present value of all of his or her estimated lifetime share under the lump sum decree.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“award. Id. at 414 , 575 P.2d at 104 . We now modify Copeland prospectively to hold that upon dissolution of marriage, unless the parties agree otherwise, the trial court must divide community property retirement benefits on a”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ruggles v. Ruggles · Mick v. Mick“[i]f the employee spouse never receives the benefits, then the non-employee spouse's estate or beneficiary will not be entitled to any benefits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ruggles v. Ruggles
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.