15 Va. App. 497 - Broom v. Broom’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably 39 Va. App. 96 - Davis v. Commonwealth (2002), Marie Holt Hart v. James P. Hart, III (1998)
30 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 26 U.S.C. § 408 (§ 2002 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Smoot v. Smoot · Ingram v. Ingram · 7 Va. App. 488 - Kaufman v. Kaufman · Mack v. Commonwealth · 8 Va. App. 48 - Ellington v. Ellington
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A pension is a retirement benefit paid regularly, with the amount of such based generally on length of employment and amount of wages or salary of pensioner. It is deferred compensation for services rendered. Robinette v. Robinette, 10 Va. App. 480, 485 , 393 S.E.2d 629, 632 (1990) (citation omitted), quoted with approval in Broom v. Broom, 15 Va. App. 497, 505 , 425 S.E.2d 90, 95 (1992).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Peters v. Madgiasz
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.