Murphy v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Burns v. Burns (1993), McKay v. McKay (2000)
36 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 · 38 U.S.C. § 3101
Relies on McCarty v. McCarty · Mansell v. Mansell · Boyles v. Boyles · Russell v. Russell · Jones v. Goodson
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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 veterans disability benefits. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“not preclude the trial court from ordering appellant to pay alimony, and once awarded, the FSPA does not relieve a retiree from paying such alimony obligations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Steiner v. Steiner
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.