Knowles v. Knowles’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
9 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 114th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1408
Relies on Busby v. Busby · Taylor v. Catalon · Keton v. Clark · Adams v. Adams · Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Caswell
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... if the 1975 divorce decree is construed, albeit erroneously, to award her separate property interest in the military benefits to the appel-lee, the trial court’s judgment must be affirmed under the doctrine of res judica-ta. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reiss v. Reiss“treat (or reserve jurisdiction to treat) any amount of retired pay of the member”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walton v. Lee
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.