Messenger v. Messenger’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
29
cited by 29 later decisions
1
states following
May 2022
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Bivins v. State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Memorial Hospital (1996), Akin v. Missouri Pacific Railroad (1998)
2 federal appellate · 27 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
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1408
Relies on Smith v. Smith
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.