113 Ohio App. 3d 24 - Neel v. Neel’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 2013
24 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 Blakemore v. Blakemore · Kaechele v. Kaechele · 48 Ohio App. 2d 85 - Swanson v. Swanson · Hoyt v. Hoyt · Bisker v. Bisker
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“{¶ 20} “ ‘To facilitate a process of equating [public pension participants] and Social Security participants we believe it will be necessary to compute the present value of a Social Security benefit had the [public plan] participant been participating in the Social Security system. This present value should then be deducted from the present value of the [public pension] at which time a figure for the marital portion of the pension could be derived and included in the marital estate for distribution purposes. This process should result in equating, as near as possible, the two classes of individuals for equitable distribution purposes.’ {¶ 21} “This formula, which calculates a ‘hypothetical Social Security benefit’ for a party who has, in reality, participated in a public retirement plan, not Social Security, and then deducts that hypothetical amount from the public pension, has been adopted by several appellate districts in Ohio. * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“{¶ 18} “Thus, the question which remains unanswered for the domestic relations practitioner is the manner in which one party’s interest in Social Security is to be evaluated in relation to the other party’s interest in a public pension. A number of possibilities have been presented. Considering that this matter has been to this court on two previous occasions, illumination of this issue is warranted. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“trial court must indicate the basis for its award in sufficient detail to enable a reviewing court to determine that the award is fair, equitable and in accordance with the law.”
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.