Brown v. Harms’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 2018
3 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 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Cort v. Ash · Gully v. First Nat. Bank in Meridian · Touche Ross & Co. v. Redington · Bender v. Williamsport Area School District · Transamerica Mortgage Advisors, Inc. v. Lewis
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“courts that already have subject matter jurisdiction from some proper source extrinsic to the [USFSPA], may treat a military pension as the property of the retiree or as the joint property of the retiree and the retiree's spouse, depending on the legal rules of the court's jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[The Act] does not create jurisdiction, but grants power to courts once they have jurisdiction”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wagner v. Wagner“in accordance with the law of the jurisdiction of such court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wagner v. Wagner
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.