Ball v. Ball’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2012
17 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 Smith v. Smith · Tiffault v. Tiffault · Kneece v. Kneece
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether vested or nonvested, pension plans are deferred compensation.... [T]o the extent that Wife participated in Husband’s military career, she also contributed to the service for which he will be compensated in the future. We hold that Husband’s participation in the pension plan was an actual right existing at the time of the divorce, even though the compensation, if received, is deferred.”
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.