Sheldone v. Marino

How courts have described this case

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

• right of interested person to contest a will survives the death of the contestant
• will contest is in nature of a property right and survives contestant’s death
• actions seeking redress for damage to property rights survive death

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Kraft Power Corp. v. Merrill
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2013-01-14· cited 53×
• Pine v. Rust
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1989-03-23· cited 28×
• Pomeroy v. Ashburnham Westminster Regional School District
  D. Massachusetts· 2006-01-18· cited 9×
• Wimberly v. Jones
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1988-08-08· cited 7×
• Curtis v. Herb Chambers I-95, Inc.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2009-11-03· cited 7×
• Rendek v. Sheriff of Bristol County
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2003-10-22· cited 6×
• Hernon v. Hernon
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2009-06-25· cited 5×
• Gasior v. Massachusetts General Hospital
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2005-04-05
• Commonwealth v. Archer
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2005-05-13
• Zichelle v. Parigian
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2006-12-22

Cites

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

• Harrison v. Loyal Protective Life Insurance
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-11-08· cited 42×
• Ingersoll v. Gourley
  Washington Supreme Court· 1913-03-15· cited 41×
• Putnam v. Savage
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1923-02-26· cited 41×
• Bonnemort v. Gill
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1897-01-08· cited 38×
• Succession of Simms
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1966-11-07· cited 36×
• In Re Morrow's Will
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1937-11-22· cited 27×
• Taylor v. Whittier
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1922-03-02· cited 27×
• Dickerson's Appeal from Probate
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1887-05-05· cited 25×
• Dickson v. Dickson
  Texas Commission of Appeals· 1928-05-02· cited 23×
• Winters v. American Trust Co.
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1929-03-16· cited 22×
• Hull v. Adams
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1934-05-24· cited 20×
• Probate of the Will of Wiltsey v. Wiltsey
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1904-01-26· cited 18×
• Estate of Field
  California Supreme Court· 1951-12-18· cited 11×
• Sheeran v. Sheeran
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1905-12-22· cited 10×
• Metropolitan Life Insurance v. DeNicola
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1944-12-28· cited 9×
• Yingling v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1969-06-27· cited 7×
• In re Mackenzie
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1936-03-20· cited 6×
• Pierce v. Felts
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1918-06-14· cited 6×
• Cawley v. Greenwood
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1906-05-18· cited 5×
• Blinn v. Pillsbury
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1925-04-18· cited 5×