Krapf v. Krapf’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 6 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022 · most notably Marriage of Mattson v. Mattson (2017), Stone v. Stone (2009)
5 federal appellate · 6 district · 52 state decisions — followed in 12 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 10 U.S.C. § 1408 · 38 U.S.C. § 1110 · 38 U.S.C. § 5301 · 38 U.S.C. § 5305 · 42 U.S.C. § 659 (§ 459 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · Mansell v. Mansell · Bateman Eichler, Hill Richards, Inc. v. Berner · Rose v. Rose · Kelley v. Rossi
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The judgment in this case does not divide the defendant’s VA disability benefits in contravention of the Mansell decision; the judgment merely enforced the defendant’s contractual obligation to his former wife, which he may satisfy from any of his resources. Nothing in 10 U.S.C. § 1408 or in the Mansell case precludes a veteran from voluntarily entering into a contract whereby he agrees to pay a former spouse a sum of money that may come from the VA disability benefits he receives..”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[wife] is entitled to receive from the defendant, pursuant to the agreement, a sum of money per month equivalent to fifty per cent of the monthly military retirement pay that the defendant would receive if his military retirement pay were not reduced by the disability payments minus the monthly military retirement pay the [wife] receives directly from the Department of Defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“While not dispositive on this matter of first impression in Massachusetts, we note that many other State appellate courts have ordered similar relief against military retirees who waive the military retirement benefits pledged to a former spouse under a separation agreement in order to obtain VA disability payments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Guerrero v. Guerrero
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.