Rickman v. Rickman’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably 40 Cal. 3d 848 - In Re Marriage of Saslow (1985), Marriage of Bugh v. Bugh (1980)
25 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 38 U.S.C. § 3101
Relies on Hisquierdo v. Hisquierdo · Indiana Employment Security Division v. Burney · De Rodulfa v. United States · Milliken v. Gleason · Plasterers Local Union No. 79 v. National Labor Relations Board
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is our opinion that the monthly checks received by appellant from the Veterans Administration for service-connected disabilities, after dissolution of the marriage, are his separate property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vitko v. Vitko
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.