Mattox v. Mattox’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably Ruggles v. Ruggles (1993), Foutz v. Foutz (1990)
33 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 71
Relies on 15 Cal. 3d 838 - In Re Marriage of Brown · Lee v. Lee · Matter of Adoption of Doe · 29 Cal. 3d 418 - In Re Marriage of Gillmore · Johnson v. Johnson
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“award), Mattox nonetheless declined to follow Schweitzer because Schweitzer was expressly made prospective only and did not apply to the facts in Mattox. Mattox acknowledged, however, that, unlike a case where the employee spouse receives the entire pension, offset by an award of property to the non-employee spouse, which was the result in Mattox , under the modified rule mandated by Schweitzer ,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ruggles v. Ruggles“basis, wife's share would have been one-half of twenty-three/twenty-five (total years of coverture divided by total years worked) at the date of maturity (when the pension”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ruggles v. Ruggles“We recognize[d] that employee spouses can sharply reduce the present value of pension benefits by projecting a retirement date as distant as possible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ruggles v. Ruggles
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