225 Ga. App. 298 - King v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2025
21 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1447 (Military Survivor Benefits Improvement Act of 1989) · 10 U.S.C. § 1448 · 10 U.S.C. § 1450 · 10 U.S.C. § 1452
Relies on Mansell v. Mansell · Courtney v. Courtney · Poloney v. Tambrands, Inc. · Andrews v. Whitaker · Stumpf v. Stumpf
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The right to the annuity asserted by [the former spouse] pursuant to the divorce decree clearly conflicts with the express provisions of the SBP under which [the military retiree's] surviving spouse is the beneficiary of the annuity. In providing the means by which former spouses may become entitled to SBP annuity benefits, Congress enacted plain and precise statutory language placing conditions and limits on that right and made clear that any annuity benefits paid in compliance with the provisions of the SBP are not subject to legal process. Since the provisions of the SBP unambiguously preclude the rights asserted under the divorce decree, we further conclude that the consequences of enforcing the conflicting state law principles sufficiently injures the objectives of the SBP so that federal law preempts the authority of state law."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“specifically set forth the conditions under which a former spouse awarded SBP benefits in a state court divorce decree may thereafter be elected as the beneficiary of the annuity under the SBP and become entitled to receive the annuity”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“which allowed federal and state courts to apply both community property and equitable distribution principles to military retirement pay”
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.