Jefferies v. Jefferies’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2025
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 26 U.S.C. § 401 (Self-Employed Individuals Tax Retirement Act of 1962) · 42 U.S.C. § 402 (§ 202 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Flemming v. Nestor · State v. Pena · Woodward v. Woodward · Olson v. Olson · Englert v. Englert
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.
“[a] transfer made pursuant to the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act 'is irrevocable and the custodial property is indefeasibly vested in the minor.' It is beyond the jurisdiction of the court when dividing marital assets between the parents in a divorce proceeding to reach assets of the children.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that [statutory] language is in general terms and contains no hint of limitation. ... in regard to the family are equitable in a high degree; and ... the court may take into consideration all of the pertinent cireumstances. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[when a decree of divorce is rendered, the court may include in it equitable orders relating to the children, property, debts or obligations, and parties.”
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.