42 Cal. 3d 131 - Casas v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 136 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2016 · most notably Mansell v. Mansell (1989), 48 Cal. 3d 973 - Newman v. Emerson Radio Corp. (1989)
12 federal appellate · 114 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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 22 U.S.C. § 4044 · 26 U.S.C. § 3402 · 42 U.S.C. § 659 (§ 459 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 45 U.S.C. § 231M (Railroad Retirement Act of 1974) · 5 U.S.C. § 8345
Relies on Linkletter v. Walker · Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson · McCarty v. McCarty · Hisquierdo v. Hisquierdo · 15 Cal. 3d 838 - In Re Marriage of Brown
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 136 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[T]he committee intends [USFSPA] to restore the law to what it was when the courts were permitted to apply state divorce law to military retired pay."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Beesley v. Beesley · Grier v. Grier“by any means available under law other than the means provided under this section. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“enforced by any means available under law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Beesley v. Beesley · Grier v. Grier
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.