Wilson v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably State ex rel. Sullivan v. Ramsey (2010), Ostanek v. Ostanek (2020)
57 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 Hoyt v. Hoyt · Wilson v. Wilson
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“implements the court's decision of how a pension is to be divided incident to divorce or dissolution”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] divorce decree is a final, appealable order, regardless of whether it calls for a QDRO that has not yet issued; the QDRO merely implements the divorce decree.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“does not in any way constitute a further adjudication on the merits[.]”
4 later decisions 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.