Matthews v. Matthews’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2012
14 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. § 1448 · 10 U.S.C. § 1450 · 10 U.S.C. § 1452 · 25 U.S.C. § 1324
Relies on State v. Siegel · 97 Md. App. 711 - Pleasant v. Pleasant · Wakefield v. Little Light · 190 W. Va. 402 - Smith v. Smith · 34 Wash. App. 266 - Barros v. Barros
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n addressing the argument that a court does not have the power to award an interest in survivor benefits to a former spouse because the SBP was the member’s separate property, earned in its entirety prior to the marriage, the California Court of Appeal likewise rejected the argument, holding that ‘the trial court did not award the survivor annuity plan to [the petitioner’s former spouse], but, instead, ordered [the husband] to maintain that plan for her benefit as part of his spousal obligation.’ In re the Marriage of Ziegler, [ 207 Cal.App.3d 788 ], 255 Cal.Rptr. 100, 102 (1989). Indeed, under the SBP, should the beneficiary predecease the participating member, the member retains the right and interest in the benefit to designate a different beneficiary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Caldwell v. Caldwell
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.