Rudden v. Rudden’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2015
18 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 42 U.S.C. § 301 (§ 1 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 402 (§ 202 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Kuchta v. Kuchta · Matter of Marriage of Swan and Swan · 109 Cal. App. 3d 334 - In Re Marriage of Hillerman · Umber v. Umber · Puckett v. Puckett
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“court permitted evidence of wife's potential social security benefits and there is no indication that the court failed to consider the matter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Olson v. Olson“`set off to [husband], if necessary, as additional marital property, the social security entitlements [wife] had acquired....'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Olson v. Olson
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.