Kramer v. Kramer’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Whalen v. U S West Communications, Inc. (1997), Donald v. Donald (2017)
52 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
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1401 (Military Retirement Reform Act of 1986) · 10 U.S.C. § 1408 · 38 U.S.C. § 310 · 38 U.S.C. § 3101 · 38 U.S.C. § 3105
Relies on McCarty v. McCarty · Mansell v. Mansell · Tess v. LAYWERS TITLE INS. CORP. · Reichert v. Reichert · Dowd v. First Omaha Securities Corp.
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“while a Nebraska court may not include service-connected disability benefits awarded to a military retiree as a part of a marital estate under Mansell [citation omitted], it may consider such benefits and the corresponding waiver of retirement pension benefits required by federal law in determining whether there has been a material change in circumstances which would justify modification of an alimony award ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Longo v. Longo“[n]o provision in the original decree or the modified decree prohibited him from exercising his right to apply for service-connected disability benefits or from waiving a corresponding amount of his retirement benefits if his application was approved”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“no evidence that the husband took any improper or unlawful action,”
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.