Flannery v. McNamara

How courts have described this case

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

• declining to follow Restatement (Third) of Prop.: Wills and Other Donative Transfers 12.1 allowing reformation of unambiguous will
• “Neither the fact that [the object of bounty] predeceased the decedent [and thus the gift failed], nor the absence of a residuary clause or a contingent beneficiary provision, makes [a] will ambiguous”
• “Reformation of wills is presently prohibited in Massachusetts”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Bongaards v. Millen
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2003-08-12· cited 69×
• Hershman-Tcherepnin v. Tcherepnin
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2008-07-31· cited 18×
• Hochberg v. Proctor
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2004-04-06· cited 8×
• In the Matter of the Estate of Rosen
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2014-12-30· cited 6×
• Redstone v. O'Connor
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2007-10-16· cited 6×
• Matteson v. Walsh
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2011-05-02· cited 6×
• McMillen v. McMillen
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2003-03-13· cited 3×
• Hershman-Tcherepnin v. Tcherepnin
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2007-09-24· cited 3×
• Seegel v. Miller
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2005-01-13· cited 2×
• In Re Lyons Marital Trust
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2006-07-18· cited 1×
• Pellegrini v. Breitenbach
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2010-05-25· cited 1×
• Barounis v. Barounis
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2015-07-30
• Roth v. Newpol
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2017-05-31
• In re Payson
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-08-28
• In the Matter of the Estate of Jablonski
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2023-08-24
• Gibney v. Hossack
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2024-04-10

Cites

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

• Fitts v. Powell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1940-11-27· cited 53×
• Putnam v. Putnam
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-09-20· cited 48×
• Berman v. Sandler
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-01-10· cited 42×
• Best v. Berry
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1905-11-28· cited 34×
• Pond v. Pond
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-05-13· cited 30×
• BankBoston v. Marlow
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-11-02· cited 29×
• DiCarlo v. Mazzarella
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-10-13· cited 28×
• Moffatt v. Heon
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1922-06-29· cited 27×
• Putnam v. Putnam
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-08-18· cited 23×
• Mahoney v. Grainger
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1933-05-25· cited 22×
• Old Colony Trust Co. v. Treadwell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1942-09-09· cited 22×
• Shawmut Bank, N.A. v. Buckley
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-05-17· cited 19×
• In re Snide
  New York Court of Appeals· 1981-02-19· cited 18×
• Simches v. Simches
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-11-06· cited 18×
• Lyman v. Sohier
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1929-01-04· cited 17×
• Erickson v. Erickson
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1998-08-18· cited 15×
• Whitbeck v. Aldrich
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1960-11-04· cited 12×
• Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co. v. Schmitt
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1965-12-06· cited 12×
• Gustafson v. Svenson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-08-30· cited 12×
• In Re the Estate of Shunji Kay Ikuta
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1981-12-30· cited 10×