Lumpkins v. Lumpkins’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
5
states following
July 1986
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chandler v. Occidental Petroleum Corp. · Busby v. Busby · Womack v. Womack · Nail v. Nail · Mora v. Mora
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f this Court did have the authority or power to set aside to petitioner herein any part of the retirement benefits of respondent, it would have set aside to petitioner some portion of those benefits when, if, and, as received. [H]owever, this Court is powerless to make any such division.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grier v. Grier
How this case has been treated — in progress
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