87 Ohio App. 3d 129 - Sprankle v. Sprankle’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2018
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
Relies on Hoyt v. Hoyt
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When distributing retirement benefits in a divorce, a "trial court must apply its discretion based upon the circumstances of the case, the status of the parties, the nature, terms and conditions of the * * * retirement plan, and the reasonableness of the result.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A trial court has broad discretion when considering retirement benefits; flexibility is necessary for the court to make an equitable decision based upon factors relevant to the situation before it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“) {¶ 63} Husband also argues that the Supplemental Retirement Plan should not be divided because it is not covered by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (”
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.