Lachney v. Lachney’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2008
14 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 21 Cal. 3d 779 - In Re Marriage of Stenquist · 358 So. 2d 919 - Sims v. Sims · 332 So. 2d 834 - TL James & Co., Inc. v. Montgomery · 40 Cal. 3d 848 - In Re Marriage of Saslow · State ex rel. Smith v. Book
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“property acquired during the existence of the legal regime through the effort, skill, or industry of either spouse; property acquired with community things or community and separate things, unless classified as separate property under Article 2341; property donated to the spouses jointly; natural and civil fruits of community property; damages awarded for loss or injury to a thing belonging to the community; and other property not classified by law as separate property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Brant v. Brant“As stated by the court in Lachney , inquiry must be made to determine whether the disability benefits represent deferred compensation in the nature of retirement or pension income or compensation to an injured employee for lost earnings in the event the employee becomes incapacitated due to serious illness or injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“does not necessarily lead to the conclusion that the disability benefits are community property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brant v. Brant
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.