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← 447 N.W.2d 124 - Stackhouse v. Russell

Stackhouse v. Russell’s Empirical Analysis

1989

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
4
states following
June 2018
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2018

2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

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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 · 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1144 (§ 514 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)

Relies on Pilot Life Insurance v. Dedeaux · McCarty v. McCarty · Kissinger v. Halperin · Ridgway v. Ridgway · Seafarers International Union v. Stone

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The purpose of the proscription on alienation and assignment is to protect an employee from his own financial improvidence in dealing with third parties. The provision is not intended to alter traditional support obligations but rather to assume that the employee and his beneficiaries reap the ultimate benefits due upon retirement.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Reineke v. Reineke
  2. “the beneficiary is named pursuant to contract, the insured loses power to designate different beneficiaries.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State Farm Life Ins. Co. v. Avila
  3. “could not avoid his obligation ... by changing beneficiaries of the policy,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State Farm Life Ins. Co. v. Avila

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.