Sheffield v. Scott

How courts have described this case

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

• contestants having taken and accepted benefits under the terms of the will with due knowledge of their rights, not interested parties to contest the will

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Jansen v. Fitzpatrick
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2000-03-02· cited 72×
• in the Estate of Aminta Perez-Muzza
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2014-07-16· cited 24×
• Sheffield v. Scott
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1983-11-03· cited 20×
• Estate of Hill, Matter Of
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 1988-11-30· cited 11×
• In re Estate of Davis
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1994-01-20· cited 11×
• Estate of McDaniel, Matter Of
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1996-10-04· cited 9×
• Plummer v. Roberson
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1984-02-29· cited 6×
• Edwards v. Haynes
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1985-03-21· cited 5×
• Allison v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1993-10-13· cited 4×
• In re Meeker
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-06-29· cited 3×
• In the Estate of Armstrong
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2004-12-16· cited 1×
• in the Estate of Billye M. Hormuth
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2014-09-10
• in Re Wade Meeker, James Meeker, Barney Holland, as Independent of the Estate of Lawrence H. Meeker, and Natasha Wesson
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2016-06-29
• in the Estate of Dempsey Johnson
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2019-11-04
• in the Estate of Dempsey Johnson
  Texas Supreme Court· 2021-05-28

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Trevino v. Turcotte
  Texas Supreme Court· 1978-03-15· cited 128×
• Womble v. Atkins
  Texas Supreme Court· 1960-01-13· cited 78×
• Turcotte v. Trevino
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1973-09-24· cited 55×
• Newton v. Newton
  Texas Supreme Court· 1884-05-06· cited 28×
• Chalmers v. Gumm
  Texas Supreme Court· 1941-07-09· cited 22×