Houston Estate

How courts have described this case

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

• testator’s intent “clear and certain”

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Cited by

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

• Estate of Sykes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-03-23· cited 42×
• Matter of Estate of Blough
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-07· cited 31×
• Hamilton Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-26· cited 30×
• Benedum Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-11-14· cited 29×
• Hill Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-11-12· cited 28×
• Estate of Flinn
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-06-05· cited 27×
• Carter Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1969-10-09· cited 27×
• Berks County Tuberculosis Society Appeal
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1965-04-20· cited 22×
• Estate of Alexander T. Tscherneff
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-02-01· cited 22×
• Estate of Taylor
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-05· cited 21×
• Chambers Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-03-25· cited 21×
• Murphy, H. v. Karnek, S.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-04-21· cited 19×
• Provident National Bank, of the Estate of Abram L. Spector and Trustee Under Paragraph 12 of the Will of Abram L. Spector v. United States
  Third Circuit· 1978-07-14· cited 18×
• Estate of: McFadden, G. Appeal of: Harrison, R.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-09-18· cited 18×
• Schappell Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-03-14· cited 17×
• Jessup Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-10-09· cited 15×
• Moltrup Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-01-04· cited 14×
• Lander Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1965-03-16· cited 14×
• Hoover Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1965-03-16· cited 14×
• Corbett Estate
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-05-03· cited 14×

Cites

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

• Britt Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1952-03-24· cited 99×
• Newlin Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1951-05-21· cited 98×
• Burleigh Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1961-12-05· cited 92×
• Sowers Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1956-01-03· cited 81×
• Kiebler v. McCutcheon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1921-02-14· cited 75×
• Dinkey Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1961-03-13· cited 67×
• Hope Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1960-03-22· cited 62×
• Cannistra Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1956-03-13· cited 62×
• Wanamaker Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1960-03-16· cited 60×
• Pruner Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1960-06-30· cited 60×
• McCauley's Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1917-04-16· cited 54×
• Tatham's Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1915-07-03· cited 50×
• Kelsey Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1958-06-30· cited 48×
• Collins Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1958-06-03· cited 45×
• Lewis Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1962-05-21· cited 43×
• Brown Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1962-07-06· cited 43×
• Woodward Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1962-06-28· cited 41×
• Althouse Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1961-06-26· cited 41×
• Rosengarten v. Ashton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1910-05-24· cited 40×
• Saunders Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1958-06-30· cited 35×

Other cases named Houston Estate

3 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Houston Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1952-06-24· cited 12×
• Houston Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1956-01-04· cited 6×
• Houston Estate
  Philadelphia County Orphans' Court· 1962-12-10