in Re: William O. Gendreau’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Carbaugh v. Carbaugh (In Re Carbaugh) (2002), Ochoa v. Ochoa (2002)
3 district · 8 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 Patterson v. Shumate · Guidry v. Sheet Metal Workers National Pension Fund · Allard v. Hilton · Ablamis v. Roper · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Wheaton
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hether or not [the former spouse’s] domestic relations order, as issued, was a QDRO is irrelevant: The QDRO provisions of ERISA do not suggest that [the former spouse] has no interest in the plans until she obtains a QDRO, they merely prevent her from enforcing her interest until the QDRO is obtained. 33”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“right to payment, whether or not such right is reduced to judgment, liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable, secured or unsecured.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“concerned with reducing the expense to plan providers and protecting them from suits for making improper payments.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. David Hamilton Sarah Hamilton, a Minor v. Washington State Plumbing & Pipefitting Industry Pension Plan Plumbers & Pipefitters National Pension Fund Western Washington U.A. Supplemental Pension Trust, Mary Hamilton, Defendant-Intervenor-Appellant. Linda Oppegaard, Guardian of Sarah Hamilton, and David Hamilton Sarah Hamilton, a Minor, Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellees v. Plumbers & Pipefitters National Pension Fund, Defendant-Cross-Defendant, Mary Hamilton, Defendant-Intervenor, and Washington State Plumbing & Pipefitting Industry Pension Plan, Local Union 32, Defendant-Cross-Defendant-Appellant. Linda Oppegaard, Guardian of Sarah Hamilton, and David Hamilton Sarah Hamilton, a Minor, Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellees v. Plumbers & Pipefitters National Pension Fund, Defendant-Cross-Defendant-Appellant, and Mary Hamilton, Defendant-Intervenor · Hamilton
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.