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431 U.S. 911

Pendleton v. Pendleton

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1977-05-16

Relies on Trimble v. Gordon

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1977-05-16

How this case has been cited

Cited by 86 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2008 · most notably Lalli v. Lalli (1978), Haynesworth v. Miller (1987)

45 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 state decisions — followed in 11 states

4901977198019902000decided

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.

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