Berry v. Meadows’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Ruggles v. Ruggles (1993), Grode v. Grode (1996)
52 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 Federal Communications Commission v. Home Box Office, Inc. · 15 Cal. 3d 838 - In Re Marriage of Brown · 29 Cal. 3d 418 - In Re Marriage of Gillmore · Van Loan v. Van Loan · 17 Cal. 2d 775 - French v. French
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A spouse’s entitlement to half of the community interest in a pension plan earned during coverture does not rest upon whether the employee’s interest was vested at the time of divorce, but whether the worker’s rights in the pension constitute a property interest or right obtained with community funds or labor. While rights to benefits under the retirement plan may never vest or mature due to contingencies and unforeseeable occurrences, wife was, nevertheless, entitled to have her portion of the contingent interest computed and divided.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Arnold v. Arnold
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.