94 Md. App. 91 - Heyda v. Heyda’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2016
2 federal appellate · 16 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 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 5 U.S.C. § 8339 · 5 U.S.C. § 8341 · 5 U.S.C. § 8345
Relies on 59 Md. App. 350 - Bangs v. Bangs · 43 Md. App. 1 - Shell Oil Co. v. Ryckman · 83 Md. App. 524 - Bentz v. Mutual Fire, Marine & Inland Insurance
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Federal law permits state divorce courts to treat certain pension and retirement rights as marital property, 5 U.S.C.A. § 8345 (j), and, correspondingly, Maryland has specifically authorized its trial courts to implement a monetary award by transferring a portion of a party’s pension or retirement plan to his or her spouse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. Sollie
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.