Smith v. Hodges

How courts have described this case

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

• “An independent executor may, without order of the probate court, do any act that an ordinary executor or administrator could do with or under an order of the probate court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• IMO the Trust Under the Will of Elizabeth Williams Vale for the Benefit of Frederic B. Asche, Jr.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2015-02-19
• John F. Sontag v. Sheila Cadena
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2013-05-15
• Texas Petroleum Land Management, LLC, Robert Ralph Riggs, Elizabeth Ann Riggs Lawrence, and Jeane Hancock Riggs Weller v. Dorothy Kalmbach McMillan, Kathryn McMillan Taylor, Austin Trust Company, and Nancy M. Higgs
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2022-02-17
• Jerry Lee Sanders v. Cheryl Vaughan, as Independent of the Estate of Dollie Barrett
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2022-09-02
• In the Estate of Billy Wayne Phillips v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2025-04-04

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bunting v. Pearson
  Texas Supreme Court· 1968-07-10· cited 40×
• Dallas Services for Visually Impaired Children, Inc. v. Broadmoor II
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1982-04-22· cited 16×
• Lesikar v. Rappeport
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1991-03-05· cited 16×
• Metting v. Metting
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1968-09-18· cited 15×
• Sweeney v. Sweeney
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1984-04-12· cited 13×
• Harper v. Swoveland
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1979-12-05· cited 12×
• D'UNGER v. De Pena
  Texas Supreme Court· 1996-11-15· cited 11×
• Buckner Orphans Home v. Maben
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1952-10-24· cited 11×
• Collins v. Baker
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1992-03-12· cited 9×
• Gatesville Redi-Mix, Inc. v. Jones
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1990-02-22· cited 5×
• Clark v. Posey
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1959-11-18· cited 5×
• In re Estate of Spindor
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1992-09-17· cited 5×