Brion M. Storm v. Robert Z. Storm

How courts have described this case

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

• holding Supreme Court precedent barred federal district court from hearing pre-probate claim for tortious interference with inheritance expectancy
• probate exception bars claim that plaintiff’s father tortiously interfered with plaintiff’s inheritance by persuading trust grantor to amend irrevocable inter vivos trust
• probate exception bars claim that plaintiff's father tortiously interfered with plaintiff's inheritance by persuading trust grantor to amend irrevocable inter vivos trust
• “When probate-like matters are at issue in a dispute, however, we reiterate that it is significant to our analysis that state courts vested with probate jurisdiction are much more familiar than are federal courts with the factual and legal issues involved.”
• “Given the growth in recent years of various ‘will substitutes,’ we are loath to throw open the doors of the federal courts to disputes over testamentary intent simply because a decedent chose to use a will substitute rather than a traditional will to dispose of his or her estate.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

26 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Marshall v. Marshall
  Supreme Court· 2006-05-01· cited 695×
• Sykes v. Cook County Circuit Court Probate Division
  Seventh Circuit· 2016-09-14· cited 169×
• Lois Jones v. Thomas Brennan
  Seventh Circuit· 2006-08-14· cited 115×
• Robert Golden, Attorney-In-Fact for Leah Golden Donald Earwood, of the Estate of Helen Earwood v. David S. Golden Darlene Koposko
  Third Circuit· 2004-09-03· cited 70×
• Miller v. Federal Deposit Insurance
  Seventh Circuit· 2013-12-26· cited 41×
• Robin Lepard v. Nbd Bank, a Division of Bank One Walter O. Koch Jeremy H. Lepard and Patricia C. Lepard
  Sixth Circuit· 2004-10-08· cited 38×
• Campbell v. Hanover Insurance (In Re ESA Environmental Specialists, Inc.)
  Fourth Circuit· 2013-03-01· cited 35×
• Evans v. Pearson Enterprises, Inc.
  Sixth Circuit· 2006-01-19· cited 21×
• Estate of Eiteljorg Ex Rel. Eiteljorg v. Eiteljorg
  S.D. Indiana· 2011-09-27· cited 20×
• Marcus v. Quattrocchi
  S.D. New York· 2010-05-27· cited 17×
• Macken v. Jensen
  Seventh Circuit· 2003-06-24· cited 15×
• Marshall v. Marshall (In re Marshall)
  Ninth Circuit· 2004-12-30· cited 9×
• Gecker v. Flynn
  N.D. Illinois· 2016-12-02· cited 6×
• Singer v. Mass. Mut. Life Ins. Co.
  E.D. Illinois· 2018-08-15· cited 6×
• Oliver v. Hines
  E.D. Virginia· 2013-05-01· cited 5×
• Munroe v. McGee
  D. Massachusetts· 2007-03-15· cited 4×
• In re Ring
  Seventh Circuit· 2005-06-29· cited 4×
• Southwest Boston Senior Services, Inc. v. Whatley
  D. Massachusetts· 2005-10-25· cited 2×
• In Re Estate of Threefoot
  W.D. Tennessee· 2004-03-15· cited 2×
• Macken, Carolyn v. Jensen, Erik
  Seventh Circuit· 2003-06-24· cited 1×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Markham v. Allen
  Supreme Court· 1946-01-07· cited 482×
• Farrell v. O'Brien
  Supreme Court· 1905-05-29· cited 249×
• Hakim Iddir v. Immigration And Naturalization Service
  Seventh Circuit· 2002-08-06· cited 168×
• Nicolae Dragan v. John and Sylvia Miller
  Seventh Circuit· 1982-06-04· cited 81×
• Minton v. Sackett
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1996-09-30· cited 26×
• Velma Eileen Loyd v. Raymond L. Loyd, Kenneth L. Owens, and Judith Owens
  Seventh Circuit· 1984-03-26· cited 24×
• Susan Kemper Hamilton v. Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr., and American National Bank and Trust Company
  Seventh Circuit· 1982-05-18· cited 22×
• Georges v. Glick
  Seventh Circuit· 1988-09-14· cited 20×
• Alfaro v. Meagher
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1975-03-17· cited 16×
• Johnson v. Bush
  S.D. Florida· 2002-07-18· cited 11×