198 Mich. App. 289 - Heike v. Heike’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2013
10 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.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Circumstances often exist that would make it unrealistic to assume that an employee will retire at the earliest possible retirement date. Utilizing a fictitious date results in a fictitious value for the asset. To value a pension on the basis of this required assumption of retirement in the face of contradictory evidence will necessarily result in an unfair or inequitable distribution of this marital asset.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The trial court is in the best position to determine the proper date and method of valuation on the basis of the circumstances of each case. We therefore hold that no one valuation method is required; rather, the trial court, when valuing a pension, is obligated to reach a fair and equitable division of the property in light of all the circumstances.”
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.