72 Wash. 2d 144 - Roach v. Roach’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2001
20 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 McLean v. United States · 69 Wash. 2d 506 - Morris v. Morris · 53 Wash. 2d 96 - Wenzler & Ward Plumbing & Heating Co. v. Sellen · 68 Wash. 2d 368 - Dickson v. Hausman · 62 Wash. 2d 917 - Robuck v. Robuck
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“After characterizing the pension as an asset acquired during coverture the [Morris] court did not treat it as a property asset, but awarded a specific payment of $100 per month from the military pension which was “all subject to further order of the court, or until such time as she remarries or becomes employed and earning $250 per month, or more.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Federal military pensions are subject to certain contingencies set out by federal statute. As such it is not a fixed asset but is an emolument or economic advantage of office. McLean v. United States, 226 U.S. 374 , 57 L. Ed. 260 , 33 Sup. Ct. 122 (1912). It is an income resource which should be considered by the court in fixing the amount of the alimony award.”
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.