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Citation profile
3 district · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Fort Halifax Packing Co. v. Coyne · Donna Rae Egelhoff v. Samantha Egelhoff Kate Breiner David Egelhoff · Fox Valley & Vicinity Construction Workers Pension Fund v. Brown · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Johnson · Sylvia Manning Executor of the Estate of Houghton West v. Audrey Allison Hayes et al.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“interests in all financial and property rights arising `by reason of their marital relation' and in `any asset assigned to a party by this Agreement' ... including `annuities, life insurance policies,' and other kinds of financial instruments”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Keen v. Weaver“a reasonable person would have understood that she was waiving her interest in the proceeds or benefits in question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a state law cannot invalidate an ERISA plan beneficiary designation by mandating distribution to another person.”
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.