Bender v. Bender’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 170 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 178 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Miller v. Egan (2003), State v. Courchesne (2003)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 170 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. § 1408 · 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1003 (§ 4 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1056 (§ 206 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on 15 Cal. 3d 838 - In Re Marriage of Brown · Peck v. Jacquemin · Krafick v. Krafick · State v. Indrisano · 78 Ill. App. 3d 653 - In Re Marriage of Hunt
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 178 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a reasoned search for the intention of the legislature.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“the defendant's expectation in his [non-vested] pension plan, as a practical matter, is sufficiently concrete, reasonable and justifiable as to constitute a presently existing property interest for equitable distribution purposes”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t is within the trial court's discretion ... to choose, on a case-by-case basis ... [the] valuation method that it deems appropriate ....”
2 later decisions 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.