Cross v. Cross

How courts have described this case

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

• failure to apply presumptive purpose would require literal interpretation of will that thwarted intention of testator when will is viewed as a whole

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Wetherill v. Basham
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2000-01-25· cited 22×
• Matter of Strobel
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1986-04-18· cited 18×
• First National Bank of McMinn County v. Walker
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1980-11-03· cited 13×
• Matter of Estate of Smith
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1978-09-28· cited 13×
• Meyer v. Bradley
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1980-04-30· cited 11×
• Estate of Eddy
  California Court of Appeal· 1982-07-26· cited 7×
• Matter of Estate of Burgess
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1992-07-07· cited 7×
• Brams Trust 2 v. Haydon
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2008-09-16· cited 4×
• Bank of Oklahoma, N.A. v. Atwood
  Court of Civil Appeals of Oklahoma· 2001-04-03· cited 3×
• Smith v. Brannan
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1998-02-18· cited 2×
• Chamberlin v. Wong
  California Court of Appeal· 1982-07-26· cited 1×
• Greenwood v. Peterson
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1986-04-18· cited 1×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Murphy v. Carron
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1976-05-05· cited 7,357×
• Housman v. Lewellen
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1951-12-10· cited 51×
• Holzbach v. United Virginia Bank
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-12-01· cited 30×
• Schede Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-06-30· cited 25×
• Shine v. Monahan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1968-11-05· cited 20×
• Fabick and Company v. Schaffner
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1973-04-09· cited 19×
• McKelvy v. Terry
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-05-14· cited 18×
• Magruder v. Magruder
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1975-06-24· cited 15×
• Lehmann v. Janes
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1966-12-12· cited 13×
• Jeffers Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1959-01-05· cited 12×
• Leidy Chemicals Foundation, Inc. v. First National Bank
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-02-03· cited 10×
• Seltzer v. Schroeder
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1966-12-05· cited 9×
• Prior v. Prior
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1965-11-08· cited 9×
• Walters v. Sisler
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1963-09-09· cited 7×
• Rogers' Estate
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1906-10-05· cited 7×
• Smoot v. McCandless
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1970-12-14· cited 6×
• Tayler v. Tayler
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1951-11-12· cited 6×