Wallace v. Fuller’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2010
10 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. § 1201 · 10 U.S.C. § 1408 · 26 U.S.C. § 104 · 38 U.S.C. § 5301
Relies on McCarty v. McCarty · Hisquierdo v. Hisquierdo · Burrus · Mansell v. Mansell · United States v. Yazell
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.
“(C) in the case of a member entitled to retired pay under Chapter 61 of this title, are equal to the amount of retired pay of the member under that chapter computed using the percentage of the member’s disability on the date when the member was retired....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bullis v. Bullis“join[ed] the Mansell dissent in decrying a decision that permits Wallace to enjoy one hundred percent of the military benefits accumulated during marriage to the total exclusion of his former spouse's interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“acknowledge[d][its] duty to follow Mansell's holding that the [USFSPA] precludes a [state] court's authority to divide any military benefits other than `disposable retired pay.'”
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.