Rumans Ex Rel. Jackson v. Lighthizer

How courts have described this case

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

• equitable adoption could not be utilized to establish heirship for purpose of inheriting from alleged equitably adopted child

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Heien v. Crabtree
  Texas Supreme Court· 1963-05-22· cited 55×
• Luna v. Estate of Rodriguez
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1995-08-16· cited 44×
• Adoption of McKinzie
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1955-02-08· cited 29×
• N. D. L. v. Family & Children's Service of Greater St. Louis
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1960-02-16· cited 16×
• Moorman v. Hunnicutt
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1959-05-27· cited 9×
• Heien v. Crabtree
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1962-12-17· cited 7×
• Deveroex v. Nelson
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1974-12-11· cited 7×
• Travelers Insurance v. Young
  E.D. Michigan· 1984-02-03· cited 6×
• In Re Estate of Jarboe
  District of Columbia· 1964-11-20· cited 6×
• Fred Kuchenig v. The California Company
  Fifth Circuit· 1969-07-07· cited 4×
• In re Estate of McConNell
  District of Columbia· 1967-06-01· cited 4×
• Bryan Keith Martin and Mary Elizabeth Martin v. Carolyn Summers
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2019-04-02· cited 3×
• Halterman v. Halterman
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1993-10-19· cited 3×
• In Re GKD
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1960-02-16
• Christopher Luna v. Estate of Henry E. Rodriguez, Hilario Rodriguez, and Kay Williams Rodriguez
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1995-08-16
• Willson v. Carmichael
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1984-01-10

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hockaday v. Lynn
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1906-12-22· cited 81×
• Moran v. Stewart
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1894-05-28· cited 25×
• Sarazin v. Union Railroad
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1900-01-23· cited 18×
• Moran v. Stewart
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1903-03-18· cited 10×