Bloom v. Bloom’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
December 1994
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Busby v. Busby · Cearley v. Cearley · Taggart v. Taggart · Abbott Laboratories v. Gravis · Nail v. Nail
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Inasmuch as the unchallenged findings of fact conclusively establish that the property interest in the retirement benefits was in the name of Dwight M. Bloom, and the divorce decree awarded any item of property not specifically mentioned therein to the party in whose name it stood, we hold that the divorce judgment adjudicated ownership of the retirement benefits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jacobs v. Cude“[a]ny items or property not specifically set forth hereinabove, shall be and the same is hereby awarded as the separate property and estate of the party in whose name or possession such item or property may be.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jacobs v. Cude
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.