Kelson v. Kelson’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
6
states following
April 2006
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1174A · 10 U.S.C. § 1175 · 10 U.S.C. § 1408
Relies on McCarty v. McCarty · Hisquierdo v. Hisquierdo · Mansell v. Mansell · Rose v. Rose · Purcell v. Deli Man, Inc.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f we were to hold otherwise a service-member spouse would be able to defeat the other spouse's court-awarded interest in military retirement benefits by unilaterally altering the form of those benefits in a manner that was unforeseeable at the time the award was made”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““How will state courts treat VSI/SSB in a divorce settlement? The treatment of VSI or SSB is not dictated by Federal law. It will be up to the state courts to rule on the divisibility of these incentives.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.