Waggoner v. Waggoner’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2019
15 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 42 U.S.C. § 402 (§ 202 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Hisquierdo v. Hisquierdo · Johnson v. Commonwealth Ex Rel. Meredith · Tabler v. Wallace · Schoo v. Rose
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the retirement benefits of one spouse are excepted from classification as marital property, or not considered as an economic circumstance during the division of marital property, then the retirement benefits of the other spouse shall also be excepted, or not considered, as the case may be.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Shown v. Shown · Shown v. Shown“a substantial and justifiable reason [must appear] from legislative history, from the statute's title, preamble or subject matter, or from some other authoritative source.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he responsibility of this Court is to draw all reasonable inferences and implications from the act as a whole and thereby sustain its validity.”
2 later decisions 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.