Gettinger v. Gettinger’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
August 1996
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Advertects, Inc. v. Sawyer Industries · In Re Brown's Estate · Central Farmers Trust Co. v. Pinkham · Patchen v. Robertson
Most-quoted passages
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“[T]o include in a decedent’s estate the assets of a corporation substantially owned by him would produce far reaching results. It would ignore the rights and interests of all other stockholders in the corporation. The creditors of the corporation might have to file claims against the estate of the principal stockholder. The board of directors and officers might be divested of all authority and their power taken over by the executor. The real and personal property of the corporation might have to be distributed among numerous beneficiaries ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Diana v. Bentsen
How this case has been treated — in progress
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