Ex Parte Burson’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2016 · most notably Rose v. Rose (1987), McElwee v. McElwee (1995)
33 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
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1201 · 10 U.S.C. § 1331 · 10 U.S.C. § 1401 (Military Retirement Reform Act of 1986) · 10 U.S.C. § 1406 · 10 U.S.C. § 1440 · 10 U.S.C. § 687 · 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 38 U.S.C. § 3101
Relies on Hisquierdo v. Hisquierdo · Free v. Bland · Addington v. Texas · Bruce v. United States · Wissner v. Wissner
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Nonassignability and exempt status of benefits `Payments of benefits due or to become due under any law administered by the Veterans Administration shall not be assignable except to the extent specifically authorized by law, and such payments shall be exempt from taxation, shall be exempt from the claim of creditors, and shall not be liable to attachment, levy, or seizure by or under any legal or equitable process whatever, either before or after receipt by the beneficiary.' Emphasis supplied.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“A district court, under our decisions, has the power to enforce a decree ordering a spouse to make payments out of the Air Force disability retirement pay.... If there is no appeal from the divorce court’s division of the property, that'decree may not be collaterally attacked.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Welch“Veterans Administration benefits... are not property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hagen v. Hagen
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.