LeClert v. LeClert’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 125 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 133 later decisions — most recently July 2009 · most notably 10 Cal. 3d 592 - In Re Marriage of Fithian (1974), Deering v. Deering (1981)
2 federal appellate · 125 state decisions — followed in 17 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 10 U.S.C. § 6323
Relies on 17 Cal. 2d 775 - French v. French · Campbell v. Campbell · Mora v. Mora · Taylor v. McBee · 69 Wash. 2d 506 - Morris v. Morris
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 133 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . Retirement pay ... is compensation for services rendered in the past. . . . The courts today regard retirement plans and retirement pay as a mode of employee compensation. It is an earned property right which accrues by reason of [plaintiff’s] years of service in the Navy. . . . [cases • omitted].””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Busby v. Busby · Moore v. O'Cheskey“[Pjlaintiff s retirement pay to which he was to become entitled July 1, 1968 cannot be considered a mere expectancy * *. Here, plaintiff has been ordered retired. When the retirement date occurs, the pay to be received by him is in payment for services performed, partly during the marriage of the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Berry v. Meadows“retirement pay which was earned during coverture [in LeClert , from 1949 to 1968] became property of the community,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Norris v. Saueressig
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.