Davenport v. Lee

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in striking an amended pleading that raised a new issue
• stating that | fi“[w]here no personal representative has been appointed, a wrongful-death suit must be filed with all of the statutory beneficiaries joined as parties to a suit”
• holding administrators or other fiduciaries cannot proceed pro se in their representative capacity and that filing of pro se complaint by administrators of estate in a wrongful death action constituted the unauthorized practice of law
• filing a pro se wrongful death claim is an unauthorized practice of law rendering any action taken a nullity
• “Under Arkansas law a wrongful-death action may be brought only by a personal representative or, if there is no personal representative, by the decedent’s heirs at law. Ark. Code Ann. § 16–62–102(b).”
• “[A]n individual may not file suit where a personal representative has been appointed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Kelly v. Saint Francis Med. Ctr.
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2017-01-27· cited 99×
• Linda Beard v. James William Branson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2017-08-30· cited 75×
• Jones Ex Rel. Jones v. Correctional Medical Services, Inc.
  Eighth Circuit· 2005-03-29· cited 64×
• Cook v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2002-10-24· cited 49×
• Brewer v. Poole
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2005-04-21· cited 39×
• Rhuland v. Fahr
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2004-03-11· cited 30×
• Steele v. McDonald
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2006-10-18· cited 29×
• Preston v. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2003-11-06· cited 26×
• Israel v. Oskey
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2005-09-07· cited 23×
• Nerri v. Adu-Gyamfi
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2005-06-09· cited 22×
• Grant Sunny Iriele v. Richard Carroll Griffin
  Eleventh Circuit· 2023-04-17· cited 22×
• Cockrell v. Union Planters Bank
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2004-09-30· cited 19×
• Rice v. Tanner
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2005-06-23· cited 18×
• Hackelton v. Malloy
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2006-01-05· cited 15×
• DeSoto Gathering Co. v. Hill ‎(16-990)‎
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2017-11-30· cited 14×
• Alexander & Baldwin , LLC v. Armitage.
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2022-04-05· cited 14×
• Brown v. Coe
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2005-07-07· cited 13×
• Geraldine Henson, as Personal Representative of the Estate of David Henson v. Kelley Cradduck
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2020-01-23· cited 13×
• Davidson Properties, LLC v. Summers
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2006-12-07· cited 12×
• Kassees v. Satterfield
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2009-02-26· cited 10×

Cites

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

• Advanced Magnetics, Inc. v. Bayfront Partners, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1997-01-13· cited 186×
• Ruth Crowder, Mother and Next Friend of Walter Paul Crowder and David Douglas Crowder, Minors v. Gordons Transports, Inc., a Corporation
  Eighth Circuit· 1967-12-29· cited 98×
• McKenzie v. Burris
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1973-10-22· cited 76×
• Freeman v. Con-Agra Frozen Foods
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2001-03-29· cited 75×
• Arkansas Tech University v. Link
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2000-06-01· cited 63×
• Arkansas Bar Association v. Union National Bank
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1954-12-13· cited 58×
• Ultracuts Ltd. v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2000-12-14· cited 55×
• Ramirez v. White County Circuit Court
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2001-01-18· cited 49×
• Goff v. Harold Ives Trucking Co., Inc.
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2000-09-28· cited 47×
• Waite v. Carpenter
  Nebraska Court of Appeals· 1992-10-27· cited 36×
• Regions Bank & Trust v. Stone County Skilled Nursing Facility, Inc
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2001-07-09· cited 30×
• Green v. Wiggins
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1991-02-11· cited 30×
• Weems v. Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1975-02-24· cited 28×
• Sublett v. Hipps
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1997-10-02· cited 27×
• Ratcliffe v. Apantaku
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2000-12-29· cited 26×
• Scheufler v. General Host Corp.
  Tenth Circuit· 1997-09-18· cited 25×
• Brewer v. Lacefield
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1990-02-20· cited 25×
• Sutter v. Payne
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1999-04-22· cited 24×
• Stoltz v. Friday
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1996-07-15· cited 22×
• Arnold Fireworks Display, Inc. v. Schmidt
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1991-11-25· cited 20×

Other cases named Davenport v. Lee

2 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Davenport v. Lee
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2001-04-04· cited 6×
• Davenport v. Lee
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2002-05-30· cited 4×