Rice v. Rice’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2006
12 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 Kissinger v. Halperin · Seafarers International Union v. Stone · Brooks v. Brooks · Laing v. Laing · Matanuska Maid, Inc. v. State
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Realistically, there is such a variety of pension plan designs that it is impossible to develop any one detailed formula that will produce an equitable result in every instance. Once the pension is vested, the trial court can determine whether the present value or the retained jurisdiction approach is appropriate in a given case and adopt that approach to the specific circumstances presented.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hartland v. Hartland“pension rights should generally be awarded to the employee spouse if there is other marital property of appropriate worth which can be awarded to the non-employee spouse”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Edelman v. Edelman“repeatedly held that to the extent retirement benefits have been earned during marriage, they constitute marital assets and are subject to equitable division.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mann v. Mann
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.