519 So. 2d 351 - Scott v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1408
Relies on McCarty v. McCarty · 358 So. 2d 919 - Sims v. Sims · 103 Wash. 2d 470 - In Re the Marriage of Konzen · Simmons v. Simmons · 100 Wash. 2d 319 - In Re Marriage of Smith
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Subject to the limitations of this section, a court may treat disposable retired or retainer pay payable to a member for pay periods beginning after June 25, 1981, either as property solely of the member or as property of the member and his spouse in accordance with the law of the jurisdiction of such court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Warren v. Warren
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.