Louise Robichaud Samaroo v. Winston R. Samaroo, At&t Management Pension Plan v. Louise M. Robichaud, Louise M. Robichaud.’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
7 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 2017
7 district · 7 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
Relies on Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Marrese v. American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons · Hisquierdo v. Hisquierdo · Burrus · Attwood v. Singletary
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“annuity provisions of a defined benefit plan are a sort of insurance, based on actuarial calculations predicting the future demands of the plan”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o the extent provided in any qualified domestic relations order,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. David Hamilton Sarah Hamilton, a Minor v. Washington State Plumbing & Pipefitting Industry Pension Plan Plumbers & Pipefitters National Pension Fund Western Washington U.A. Supplemental Pension Trust, Mary Hamilton, Defendant-Intervenor-Appellant. Linda Oppegaard, Guardian of Sarah Hamilton, and David Hamilton Sarah Hamilton, a Minor, Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellees v. Plumbers & Pipefitters National Pension Fund, Defendant-Cross-Defendant, Mary Hamilton, Defendant-Intervenor, and Washington State Plumbing & Pipefitting Industry Pension Plan, Local Union 32, Defendant-Cross-Defendant-Appellant. Linda Oppegaard, Guardian of Sarah Hamilton, and David Hamilton Sarah Hamilton, a Minor, Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellees v. Plumbers & Pipefitters National Pension Fund, Defendant-Cross-Defendant-Appellant, and Mary Hamilton, Defendant-Intervenor · Hamilton“was silent on the issue of survivor's rights.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. David Hamilton Sarah Hamilton, a Minor v. Washington State Plumbing & Pipefitting Industry Pension Plan Plumbers & Pipefitters National Pension Fund Western Washington U.A. Supplemental Pension Trust, Mary Hamilton, Defendant-Intervenor-Appellant. Linda Oppegaard, Guardian of Sarah Hamilton, and David Hamilton Sarah Hamilton, a Minor, Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellees v. Plumbers & Pipefitters National Pension Fund, Defendant-Cross-Defendant, Mary Hamilton, Defendant-Intervenor, and Washington State Plumbing & Pipefitting Industry Pension Plan, Local Union 32, Defendant-Cross-Defendant-Appellant. Linda Oppegaard, Guardian of Sarah Hamilton, and David Hamilton Sarah Hamilton, a Minor, Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellees v. Plumbers & Pipefitters National Pension Fund, Defendant-Cross-Defendant-Appellant, and Mary Hamilton, Defendant-Intervenor · Hamilton
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.