Dillard v. Dillard’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2000 · most notably Ridgway v. Ridgway (1981), Rose v. Rose (1987)
4 federal appellate · 18 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 Wissner v. Wissner · People's Church of San Fernando Valley, Inc. v. County of Los Angeles · Burger v. Burger · Voelkel v. Tohulka · Rippy v. Rippy
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““§3101. Nonassignability and exempt status of benefits “(a) Payments of benefits due or to become due under any law administered by the Veteran’s Administration shall not be assignable except to the extent specifically authorized by law, and such payments made to, or on account of, a beneficiary shall be exempt from taxation, shall be exempt from the claim of creditors, and shall not be liable to attachment, levy, or seizure by or under any legal or equitable process whatever, either before or after receipt by the beneficiary. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Payments of benefits due or to become due under any law administered by the Veterans’ Administration shall not be assignable except to the extent specifically authorized by law, and such payments made to, or on account of, a beneficiary shall be exempt from taxation, shall be exempt from the claim of creditors, and shall not be liable to attachment, levy, or seizure by or under any legal or equitable process whatever, either before or after receipt by the beneficiary.”
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.