49 Md. App. 392 - Ohm v. Ohm’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Deering v. Deering (1981), 491 So. 2d 265 - Diffenderfer v. Diffenderfer (1986)
67 state decisions — followed in 10 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 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1056 (§ 206 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 45 U.S.C. § 231 (Railroad Retirement Act of 1974) · 45 U.S.C. § 231D (Railroad Retirement Act of 1974) · 45 U.S.C. § 231M (Railroad Retirement Act of 1974)
Relies on Hicks v. Miranda · McCarty v. McCarty · Hisquierdo v. Hisquierdo · 15 Cal. 3d 838 - In Re Marriage of Brown · 78 Ill. App. 3d 653 - In Re Marriage of Hunt
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The contributions, monetary and non-monetary, of each party to the well-being of the family; (2) The value of all property interests of each spouse; (3) The economic circumstances of each spouse at the time the award is to be made; (4) The circumstances and facts which contributed to the estrangement of the parties; (5) The duration of the marriage; (6) The age and physical and mental condition of the parties; (7) How and when specific marital property was acquired, including the effort expended by each party in accumulating the marital property; (8) An award or other provision which the court has made under this Subtitle 6A with respect to family use property or the family home, and any award of alimony; and (9)Such other factors as the court deems necessary or appropriate to consider in order to arrive at a fair and equitable monetary award.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n granting an absolute divorce or annulment, or at any time within 90 days thereafter, if in its decree granting the divorce or annulment the court has expressly reserved the power to do so, the court shall determine which property is marital property if the division of property is an issue. Family use personal property or the family home shall not be considered marital property so long as it is the subject of a use and possession order.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the problem of valuing and distributing pension benefits to be paid in the future is a difficult one and has not proved susceptible to the imposition of rigid rules. Rath er, the courts have generally held that a flexible approach is necessary, so as to accommodate the circumstances presented by each individual case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.