82 Wash. 2d 573 - Payne v. Payne’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently July 2010 · most notably Deering v. Deering (1981), 85 Wash. 2d 364 - Wilder v. Wilder (1975)
51 state decisions — followed in 13 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
Relies on LeClert v. LeClert · Mora v. Mora · In Re Marriage of Karlin · 69 Wash. 2d 506 - Morris v. Morris · Kirkham v. Kirkham
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The statement in Roach that a military pension ‘is not a fixed asset but is an emolument or economic advantage of office’ does not preclude the court from treating certain aspects of that pension as property, regardless of the fact that there are inherent limitations that make it different from fixed assets. Mora v. Mora, 429 S.W.2d 660 (Tex.Civ.App.1968). This construction of our cases is consistent with the interpretation given by other community property states. Courts today regard military retirement plans and retirement pay as a mode of employee compensation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Courts today regard military retirement plans and retirement pay as a mode of employee compensation. It is an earned property right which accrues, by reason of a specified number of years of service in a particular branch of the armed services.”
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.