30 Mass. App. Ct. 133 - Dewan v. Dewan’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 2010
11 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 29 Cal. 3d 418 - In Re Marriage of Gillmore · Drapek v. Drapek · 19 Mass. App. Ct. 538 - Robbins v. Robbins · 26 Mass. App. Ct. 859 - Fechtor v. Fechtor · Mattox v. Mattox
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The nonemployee spouse] argues that for purposes of computing present value in the context of divorce proceedings, a court should assume the earliest possible retirement date for the spouse with the pension. Some courts have thought this a sound principle. See In re Marriage of Gillmore, 29 Cal.3d 418 , 174 Cal.Rptr. 493 , 629 P.2d 1 (1981). The point, adverted to in the Gillmore opinion at 424-425 [ 174 Cal.Rptr. 493 , 629 P.2d 1 ], is that the spouse with the retirement benefits should not be able to manipulate them to impair the other spouse's benefits.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a judge determining present value of a pension should not invariably be required to assume the earliest possible retirement age. In general, fair value analysis assumes norms.... There is no distortion if a judge chooses a retirement age that is the norm, namely, sixty-five.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“no evidence that an earlier retirement age was the custom in [the husband's] line of work or that [the husband] had intended to take early retirement.”
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.