491 So. 2d 265 - Diffenderfer v. Diffenderfer’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
166 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 167 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Krafick v. Krafick (1995), 586 So. 2d 118 - Hare v. Hodgins (1991)
166 state decisions
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
Relies on 382 So. 2d 1197 - Canakaris v. Canakaris · 15 Cal. 3d 838 - In Re Marriage of Brown · American States Insurance v. Piasecki · 397 So. 2d 775 - Nationwide Mut. Ins. v. Ed Soules Const. Co. · 379 So. 2d 949 - Duncan v. Duncan
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 167 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that a spouse's entitlement to pension or retirement benefits must be considered a marital asset for purposes of equitably distributing marital property.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. White v. Deal · Lauro v. Lauro“considered as an asset reflecting his ability to pay.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lauro v. Lauro · Carroll v. Carroll“Whether the [pension] plan is contributory or noncontributory, the employee receives a lesser present compensation plus the contractual right to the future benefits payable under the pension plan. The value of those contractual rights will vary depending upon the number of years employed but where, as here, the rights are vested, or where they are matured, they have an actuarially calculable value. To the extent that they result from employment time after marriage and before commencement of a matrimonial action, they are contract rights of value, received in lieu of higher compensation which would otherwise have enhanced either marital assets or the marital standard of living and, therefore, are marital property.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.