Burley Ex Rel. Hill v. Douglas

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• holding that the plaintiff did not have standing as personal representative of an estate under a similar provision of Mississippi’s wrongful death statute because at the time he filed the action, no estate had been opened
• “Our holding today recognizes the statutory distinction between a party’s authority to bring a wrongful-death action and the party’s ability to recover damages from it.
• “Our holding today recognizes the statutory distinction between a party’s authority to bring a wrongful-death action and the party’s ability to recover damages from it.
• “a claimant cannot bring claims on behalf of an estate that does not yet exist.”
• “Burley’s ability, or lack thereof, to seek and/or recover certain damages ... does not determine the character of his standing as a particular type of wrongful-death claimant.”
• “Burley’s ability, or lack thereof, to seek and/or recover certain damages . . . does not determine the character of his standing as a particular type of wrongful-death claimant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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• Douglas v. Burley ex rel. Hill
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2012-11-01· cited 27×
• Estate of Baumgardner v. Ready
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2012-03-01· cited 24×
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  Fifth Circuit· 2016-03-15· cited 23×
• Clark Sand Co., Inc. v. Kelly
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2011-04-28· cited 17×
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  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2011-11-03· cited 17×
• LaSalle Bank Natl. Assn. v. Brown
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2014-07-25· cited 13×
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• Estate of Justin v. Smith
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2014-01-23· cited 4×
• TRK, LLC v. Vivian Myles
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2017-03-02· cited 3×
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• Diana Kinsey v. Pangborn Corporation
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Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-12· cited 24,791×
• Caves v. Yarbrough
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2008-09-25· cited 132×
• Monsanto Co. v. Hall
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-10-06· cited 119×
• Long v. McKinney
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-12-02· cited 82×
• Alack v. Phelps
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1970-01-26· cited 35×
• In Re Estate of England
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2003-05-27· cited 31×
• Delta Health Group, Inc. v. Estate of Pope Ex Rel. Payne
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2008-10-02· cited 29×
• Smith v. Garrett
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1973-12-17· cited 24×
• Crawford Com. Const. v. Marine Ind. Res. Ins.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-08-24· cited 24×
• Partyka v. Yazoo Development Corp.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1979-09-12· cited 24×
• Estate of Jones v. Howell
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-08-08· cited 21×
• Hill v. James
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1965-05-17· cited 19×
• J. J. Newman Lumber Co. v. Scipp
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1922-03-15· cited 18×
• Ricks v. Johnson
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1924-02-18· cited 16×
• Estate of Klaus v. VICKSBURG HEALTHCARE
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-11-29· cited 15×
• Coleman Powermate, Inc. v. Rheem Mfg. Co.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-08-19· cited 14×
• Sealy v. Goddard
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-02-10· cited 9×
• Edward Hines Yellow Pine Trustees v. Stewart
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1924-05-12· cited 9×
• McLEMORE BY AND THROUGH McLEMORE v. Gammon
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-05-08· cited 7×