Sommermeyer v. Price’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 2006 · most notably Matter of Estate of Daigle (1981), 6 Va. App. 541 - Wells v. Commonwealth (1988)
31 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 39 Colo. App. 360 - Russell v. First Am. Mtg. Co. · Estate of Randall v. Colorado State Hospital · Safeco Insurance Company of America v. Gonacha · 80 Wash. 2d 111 - Belancsik v. Overlake Memorial Hospital · Moore v. Skiles
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Here, the estate consists only of a liability insurance policy the proceeds of which may only be claimed by plaintiffs who are entitled to be indemnified in accordance with the terms of the policy. Thus, the proceeds are not available to the general creditors or beneficiaries of the estate. Moreover, the claims of the plaintiffs to be satisfied by the insurance proceeds do not affect the interests of the beneficiaries under the estate and thus present no obstacle to an orderly and exact administration of the estate .... The General Assembly has recognized this distinction in enacting the present day Probate Code. See section 15-12-803(3)(b), C.R.S. 1973.” 198 Colo. at 551 , 603 P.2d at 138 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We interpret the language of this court in Randall — that a nonclaim statute operates to deprive a court of jurisdiction— as limited only to late filed claims in a then pending estate. In other words, once an estate was opened and a notice to creditors had been given, the court was without jurisdiction to adjudicate untimely filed claims.” 8”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““If before the expiration of the period fixed by the applicable statute of limitations the disability of any person under disability is removed, the fact of such removal shall not in any way affect or stop the running of the applicable statute of limitations, except as provided in section 13-81-103(l)(c).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.