Vickers v. Vickers (Vickers)’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
23
cited by 23 later decisions
December 1992
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 523
Relies on Brown III v. Felsen · Warner v. Warner (In Re Warner) · Albin v. Albin · Benz v. Nelson (In Re Nelson) · Monday v. Allen (In Re Allen)
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.
“(T)he bankruptcy court must make its determination based upon the intended function of the award at the time of entry of the state court dissolution decree.”
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.