164 N.C. App. 543 - Halstead v. Halstead’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
11 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1408 · 38 U.S.C. § 5301
Relies on McCarty v. McCarty · Mansell v. Mansell · Clauson v. Clauson · 113 N.C. App. 725 - Bishop v. Bishop · 249 Ga. App. 131 - Herman Homes, Inc. v. Smith
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall be exempt from taxation, shall be exempt from the claim of creditors, and shall not be liable to attachment, levy, or seizure by or under any legal or equitable process whatever, either before or after receipt by the beneficiary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the [USFSPA] does not grant state courts the power to treat as property divisible upon divorce military retirement pay that has been waived to receive veterans' disability benefits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lesh v. Lesh“Disability benefits should not, either in form or substance, be treated as marital property subject to division upon the dissolution of marriage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lesh v. Lesh
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.