Moore v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably Bornemann v. Bornemann (1998), Bender v. Bender (2001)
66 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 Sigmond v. United States · Rothman v. Rothman · Urbanek v. United States · Stern v. Stern · Dugan v. Dugan
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`a current valuation award of the appropriate share of the non-contingent portion of a pension and a deferred distribution of the share of the contingent benefits if and when they are paid to the employee spouse.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he segment of cost-of-living increases attributable to those contributions and services made during the marriage from the joint efforts of both parties are subject to equitable distribution. [Ibid.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“right to receive benefits accruing to a spouse subsequent to a divorce are subject to equitable distribution if they are related to the joint efforts of the parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.