Morales v. Morales’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
states following
September 2002
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1408
Relies on McCarty v. McCarty · Tunstall v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen · Bullock v. Bullock · Briese v. Briese · Tkach v. American Sportsman, Inc.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it no longer is the function of this court to scour the record for issues which could lead to a result we might believe to be more desirable, and we must resist the urge to retry the case for the parties.”
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.