Ryan v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Dawes v. Wittrock Sandblasting & Painting, Inc. (2003), Kalkowski v. Kalkowski (2000)
49 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)
Relies on McCarty v. McCarty · Hisquierdo v. Hisquierdo · Mansell v. Mansell · Free v. Bland · Saint Joseph Center for Mental Health v. County of Douglas
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Court concluded that the [Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act] had a preemptive effect of its own and held that "the Former Spouses' Protection Act does not grant state courts the power to treat as property divisible upon divorce military retirement pay that has been waived to receive [VA] disability benefits." 490 U.S. at 594-95 , 109 S.Ct. 2023 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Attorney fees and expenses may be recovered only where provided for by statute or when a recognized and accepted uniform course of procedure has been to allow recovery of attorney fees. . . . Customarily, attorney fees and costs are awarded only to prevailing parties ... or assessed against those who file frivolous suits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“from exercising subject matter jurisdiction over [VA] disability benefits.”
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.