25 Cal. App. 3d 889 - Bensing v. Bensing’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently August 2007 · most notably 15 Cal. 3d 838 - In Re Marriage of Brown (1976), 10 Cal. 3d 592 - In Re Marriage of Fithian (1974)
60 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 46 Cal. 2d 690 - Primm v. Primm · 3 Cal. 3d 32 - Phillipson v. Board of Administration, Public Employees' Retirement System · 6 Cal. 3d 461 - Waite v. Waite · 17 Cal. 2d 775 - French v. French · 203 Cal. App. 2d 8 - Williamson v. Williamson
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the community musters sufficient assets to do so, the preferable mode of division would be to award the pension rights to the employee and property of equal value to the spouse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The pension terminates with the death of the husband, and wife's share also terminates if she predeceases the husband.”
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.