Redd v. Brooke’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2020
4 district · 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
Relies on 26 Cal. 2d 173 - Grimm v. Grimm · 41 Cal. 2d 770 - Thorp v. Randazzo · Romero v. Melendez · N. L. R. B. v. Sprys · Lincoln National Life Insurance Company v. Blight
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.
“explicit language in a divorce decree [is required] to divest a former spouse of his or her rights as a designated beneficiary”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is a simple matter to change a beneficiary on a policy after divorce, just as it is a simple matter to include an explicit waiver or relinquishment of the right of the beneficiary to take under the policy when the decree is drawn. Absent unequivocal language or actions to support a finding of relinquishment or waiver by [the ex-wife], we decline to speculate as to what the parties may have intended.” Redd v. Brooke, 96 Nev. 9, 11 , 604 P.2d 360 (1980).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“general expressions or clauses in [separation] agreements are not to be construed as including an assignment or renunciation of expectancies; therefore, a beneficiary retains his [or her] status ... if it does not clearly appear from the agreement that in addition to the segregation of the property of the spouses it was intended to deprive either spouse of the right to take property under the will or insurance contract of the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.