Breslin v. Synnott’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1056 (§ 206 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Bull v. Pinkham Engineering Assocs., Inc. · McCoy v. Feinman · Sharkey v. Ultramar Energy Ltd. · Shanks v. Treadway · Youngbluth v. Youngbluth
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“necessary to enforce the correct terms of the divorce decree, and the court had jurisdiction to issue it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“directing the [retirement] plan administrator to make certain specified payments to the ex-spouse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“enters a substantive order which equitably divides and assigns the parties' property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.