Armstrong v. Armstrong’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 2002 · most notably 144 Md. App. 395 - Collins v. Collins (2002), Fern v. Turman (1984)
13 federal appellate · 5 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. § 1408 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331
Relies on Jones v. Rath Packing Co. · McCarty v. McCarty · Mandel v. Bradley · Lauchli v. United States · Cerone v. United States
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Does federal preemption of state community property laws regarding division of military retirement pay render state judgments void for lack of subject matter jurisdiction where such judgments were entered after Congress had preempted area of law?”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“or as property of the member and his spouse in accordance with the law of the jurisdiction.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“have vitality only as defenses to enforcement of the state court judgment. Federal question jurisdiction is thus lacking....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.