Pulliam v. Pulliam’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2023
9 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 358 So. 2d 919 - Sims v. Sims · 178 W. Va. 563 - Cross v. Cross · 366 Pa. Super. 19 - DeMasi v. DeMasi · 40 Ohio App. 3d 155 - Day v. Day · Copeland v. Copeland
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We hold that the present value method is preferable where pension valuation is not unduly speculative, and where, at the time of divorce, sufficient assets are available to divide the present value of retirement benefits without causing an undue hardship to the employee. The trial court has discretion to decide whether the described impediments exist. If one or more of them is found, then the trial court may distribute the assets according to the deferred distribution approach. Under this approach, the trial court at the time of trial should award each spouse an appropriate percentage of the pension.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“dictate any specific technique for distributing pension benefits in a divorce because each pension plan presents a different set of problems.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“On remand, the trial court must determine, from the evidence presented by both parties, the pension fund's present value. It is recognized that actuarial experts can apply some rules of probability as appropriate evidence. But the trial court should also consider intangible factors such as work instability, discharge, voluntary pre-retirement work termination, or the possibility of early death due to illness in determining the valuation of the present worth of the future benefit expectancy. The trial court in its discretion may decide what present value is "just and reasonable."”
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.