Broadhead v. Broadhead’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Bender v. Bender (2001), Reavis v. Reavis (1998)
47 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 · 26 U.S.C. § 414 (§ 1015 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on McCarty v. McCarty · Hisquierdo v. Hisquierdo · 15 Cal. 3d 838 - In Re Marriage of Brown · 78 Ill. App. 3d 653 - In Re Marriage of Hunt · Deering v. Deering
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * The court may decree to either party reasonable alimony out of the estate of the other having regard for the other's ability and may order so much of the other's real estate or the rents and profits thereof as is necessary be assigned and set out to either party for life, or may decree a specific sum be paid by either party."”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]f a trial court in exercise of its discretion may modify tentative decisions until entry of the final order, it does not err in rendering a decree with changed provisions.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage““THE APPELLANT’S FUTURE MILITARY RETIREMENT PAY IS FUTURE PROPERTY AND NOT PART OF THE MARITAL ESTATE IN THE HANDS OF THE COURT FOR DISPOSITION.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Muller v. Muller · Parker v. Parker
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.