Gemma v. Gemma’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently October 2019 · most notably Bender v. Bender (2001), 586 So. 2d 118 - Hare v. Hodgins (1991)
41 state decisions — followed in 12 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
Relies on 15 Cal. 3d 838 - In Re Marriage of Brown · 29 Cal. 3d 418 - In Re Marriage of Gillmore · Van Loan v. Van Loan · Laing v. Laing · Berry v. Meadows
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clearly outweigh any other method of pension division”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Garcia v. Garcia · Sertic v. Sertic“providefc] a procedure to accommodate those relatively few cases where it would be inequitable for the nonemployee spouse to receive retirement benefits based upon a high salary level achieved by the employee spouse's post- marriage effort and achievement.” Id., 778 P.2d at 432 . Subsequently, in Fondi v. Fondi, 106 Nev. 856 , 802 P.2d 1264 (1990), the Supreme Court of Nevada explained that the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[If] the trial court agree[s] that the pension was increased due to the employee spouse's personal effort or achievement, benefits may then be reallocated using the highest income the employee spouse would have received under the normal course of events, including ordinary promotions and cost increases and gains due to non-personal factors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.