Burns v. Burns’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
100 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably Pifer v. Single Source Transportation (2002), Myrick v. Myrick (1999)
100 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
Relies on Day v. Day · Wilson v. Wilson · Scroggins v. Scroggins · Russell v. Russell · Baker v. Baker
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“nonvested military retirement benefits to which the serviceman or servicewoman may become entitled in the future are not property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nauman v. Nauman
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.