Lopez v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably 156 Ill. 2d 541 - In Re Marriage of Henry (1993), Ahuna v. Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (1982)
2 federal appellate · 43 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 42 U.S.C. § 402 (§ 202 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Cash v. Cash · Briggs v. Briggs · 13 Ariz. App. 515 - Baures v. Baures · McClaskey v. McClaskey · 26 Ariz. App. 130 - Chudzinski v. Chudzinski
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.