Barnett v. Barnett

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Costs and attorney’s fees are assessed against the personal representative of an estate because of the inequities inherent in penalizing the estate when the representative neglects his or her duty.”
• “Costs and attorney’s fees are assessed against the personal representative of an estate because of the inequities inherent in penalizing the estate when the representative neglects his or her duty.”
• A Costs and attorney = s fees are assessed against the personal representative of an estate because of the inequities inherent in penalizing the estate when the representative neglects his or her duty. @

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Barnett v. Barnett
  Texas Supreme Court· 2002-02-14· cited 141×
• Lee v. Lee
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2001-05-17· cited 111×
• Goose Creek Consolidated Independent School District of Chambers & Harris Counties v. Jarrar's Plumbing, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2002-05-14· cited 88×
• In the Matter of $475,001.16
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2002-12-27· cited 45×
• In Re Estate of Rhea
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2008-06-05· cited 37×
• In Re Estate of Hawkins
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2006-02-16· cited 15×
• Meador v. Oryx Energy Co.
  E.D. Texas· 2000-03-08· cited 13×
• Williams v. Crutcher
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2013-02-15· cited 5×
• Estate of Wolfe
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2008-09-18· cited 4×
• Estate of Aubrey Wright Hawkins
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2006-02-16
• Estate of Richard Glenn Wolfe, Sr.
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2008-09-18
• Estate of Wanda Meacham Rhea
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2008-06-05
• Estate of Mitchell Van Meter
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2009-04-02
• Tom Williams, Independent of the Estate of Dora E. L. Barnett v. Marleen Kovalchik Barnett
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2011-06-16

Cites

35 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• City of Houston v. Clear Creek Basin Authority
  Texas Supreme Court· 1979-10-03· cited 5,187×
• Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-24· cited 3,550×
• Pilot Life Insurance v. Dedeaux
  Supreme Court· 1987-04-06· cited 3,459×
• Science Spectrum, Inc. v. Martinez
  Texas Supreme Court· 1997-04-18· cited 1,594×
• Fort Halifax Packing Co. v. Coyne
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-01· cited 1,315×
• Cincinnati Life Insurance Co. v. Cates
  Texas Supreme Court· 1996-09-19· cited 997×
• Jones v. Strauss
  Texas Supreme Court· 1988-02-24· cited 485×
• Cockerham v. Cockerham
  Texas Supreme Court· 1975-07-09· cited 340×
• The Sommers Drug Stores Co. Employee Profit Sharing Trust, Cross-Appellant v. Corrigan Enterprises, Inc. And Walter N. Corrigan, Cross-Appellees
  Fifth Circuit· 1986-07-14· cited 287×
• Sherman v. First National Bank in Center
  Texas Supreme Court· 1988-06-29· cited 250×
• Massey v. Massey
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1991-03-07· cited 145×
• Brandon v. Travelers Insurance
  Fifth Circuit· 1994-04-19· cited 98×
• Knighton v. International Business MacHines Corp.
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1993-04-22· cited 97×
• Schwartz v. Pinnacle Communications
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1997-03-27· cited 71×
• Brown v. Lee
  Texas Supreme Court· 1963-10-02· cited 66×
• Humane Society of Austin & Travis County v. Austin National Bank
  Texas Supreme Court· 1975-12-10· cited 62×
• Massey v. Massey
  Texas Supreme Court· 1993-09-29· cited 59×
• Whitaker v. Bank of El Paso
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1993-03-17· cited 55×
• Jones v. Legal Copy, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1993-01-21· cited 53×
• Neese v. Dietz
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1992-11-12· cited 50×