In Re Doonan Estate

How courts have described this case

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

• “We consider that the issues presented are not to be decided merely by applying the rubric of ‘specific’ or ‘general’ to the Clow [named legatees] legacies and by attaching consequences thought to follow automatically from that determination”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Rosenfeld v. Frank
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1988-08-09· cited 5×
• Watson v. Santalucia
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1993-02-11· cited 4×
• In Re Harvey Estate
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1970-12-30· cited 1×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Eisner v. MacOmber
  Supreme Court· 1920-03-08· cited 1,262×
• Woodward Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1962-06-28· cited 41×
• First National Bank v. Union Hospital
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1932-11-15· cited 17×
• Amoskeag Trust Co. v. Haskell
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1950-01-03· cited 15×
• Egavian v. Egavian
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1967-08-18· cited 14×
• Fisher v. Paine
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1957-05-22· cited 13×
• McGuinness v. Bates
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1963-03-29· cited 9×
• Igoe v. Darby
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1961-11-07· cited 8×
• Roberts v. Tamworth
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1950-05-02· cited 7×
• Greathead Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-11-28· cited 5×
• Marks Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1969-06-27· cited 5×
• Warren v. Shoemaker
  Ohio Probate Court of Franklin County· 1965-03-10· cited 4×
• Young v. Dunton
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1965-04-30· cited 3×
• duPont v. duPont
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1964-10-09· cited 1×