203 Cal. App. 2d 8 - Williamson v. Williamson’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably 15 Cal. 3d 838 - In Re Marriage of Brown (1976), 10 Cal. 3d 592 - In Re Marriage of Fithian (1974)
34 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 17 Cal. 2d 775 - French v. French · 6 Cal. 2d 575 - Dryden v. Board of Pension Commissioners · Cheney v. City & County of San Francisco Employees Retirement System · Crossan v. Crossan
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]ensions become community property, subject to division in a divorce, when and to the extent that the party is certain to receive some payment or recovery of funds. To the extent that payment is, at the time of the divorce, subject to conditions which may or may not occur, the pension is an expectancy, not subject to division as community property.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“under the applicable statutes the [husband] will not be entitled to such pay until he completes a service of fourteen years in the Fleet Reserve and complies with all of the requirements of that service.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“At the present time, his right to retirement pay is an expectancy which is not subject to division as community 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.