Montgomery v. Michaels

How courts have described this case

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

• statutory share includes funds in Totten trusts because such trusts, while otherwise valid, are invalid against surviving spouse
• Totten trust, over which decedent maintains control during his or her lifetime, may not deprive surviving spouse of statutory share, regardless of decedent’s intent in creating the savings account trust

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Johnson v. La Grange State Bank
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1978-11-22· cited 93×
• Bongaards v. Millen
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2003-08-12· cited 69×
• In Re Estate of Chandler
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1980-11-26· cited 28×
• Dalia v. Lawrence
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1993-06-22· cited 28×
• In Re Estate of Karas
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1975-06-02· cited 25×
• Lesnik v. Estate of Lesnik
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1980-03-31· cited 25×
• Toman v. Svoboda
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1976-06-04· cited 21×
• Leazenby v. Clinton County Bank & Trust Co.
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1976-10-28· cited 18×
• In Re Estate of Mocny
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1993-12-29· cited 12×
• In Re Estate of Goldstein
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1997-11-20· cited 11×
• In Re Estate of Elliott
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1975-11-03· cited 11×
• La Pierre v. Oak Park Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1974-07-12· cited 9×
• Johnson v. LaGrange State Bank
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1977-07-07· cited 7×
• ESTATE OF GEORGE A. DZIALOWY v. Dzialowy
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1977-10-05· cited 7×
• Wright v. Farmers State Bank
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1974-02-28· cited 6×
• In Re Estate of Puetz
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1988-04-13· cited 6×
• Havey v. Patton
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1977-09-30· cited 6×
• Allen v. First Presbyterian Church of Ironwood
  California Court of Appeal· 1993-02-03· cited 6×
• Gecker v. Flynn
  N.D. Illinois· 2016-12-02· cited 6×
• Prestige Vacations, Inc. v. Kozak
  N.D. Ohio· 1979-06-06· cited 5×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Gurnett v. Mutual Life Insurance
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1934-06-15· cited 54×
• Farkas v. Williams
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1955-02-16· cited 49×
• In Re Estate of Petralia
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1965-01-21· cited 32×
• Blankenship v. Hall
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1908-02-20· cited 32×
• In re the Estate of Reich
  New York Surrogate's Court· 1933-02-27· cited 29×
• Holmes v. Mims
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1953-09-24· cited 22×
• In re Taylor's Will
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1870-09-15· cited 22×
• Rose v. St. Louis Union Trust Co.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1969-11-26· cited 10×
• MacGregor v. Fox
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1952-07-01· cited 5×
• In Re Estate of Montgomery
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1972-01-10· cited 2×
• In re the Estate of Morton
  New York Surrogate's Court· 1969-11-26· cited 1×