Heussner v. Hayes’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2020
20 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 Amore v. Frankel · Baskin's Appeal from Probate · George v. St. Ann's Church · Slattery v. Woodin · Marcus v. Department of Income Maintenance
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e are ... mindful of the familiar principle that a court [that] exercises a limited and statutory jurisdiction is without jurisdiction to act unless it does so under the precise circumstances and in the manner particularly prescribed by the enabling legislation. ... Our courts of probate have a limited jurisdiction and can exercise only such powers as are conferred on them by statute. ... They have jurisdiction only when the facts exist on which the legislature has conditioned the exercise of their power. ... The Superior Court, in turn, in passing on an appeal, acts as a court of probate with the same powers and subject to the same limitations. ... It is also well established that [t]he right to appeal from a decree of the Probate Court is purely statutory and the rights fixed by statute for taking and prosecuting the appeal must be met. ... Thus, only [w]hen the right to appeal ... exists and the right has been duly exercised in the manner prescribed by law [does] the Superior Court [have] full jurisdiction over [it] ....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“A motion to dismiss ... properly attacks the jurisdiction of the court, essentially asserting that the plaintiff cannot as a matter of law and fact state a cause of action that should be heard by the court. ... Whether an issue implicates subject matter jurisdiction is a question of law over which our review is plenary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[J]urisdiction over a probate appeal attaches when the appeal is properly taken and ... the requirements of mesne process do not apply to probate appeals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.