Moore v. Jordan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 14 state decisions

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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Prior to the death of the intestate, the notes had no fixed situs, but followed the domicile of the owner, wherever that might be. After his death they lost their transitory character and became local. The principal administration to which all others are subordinate is at the domicile of the intestate, and the universally recognized rule of law is that the succession to and distribution of personal estate is governed by the law of the place where the intestate was domiciled at the time of his death. . . . “However, the letters of administration confer no authority beyond the limits of the state granting them. The title acquired by the administrator of the domicile is but a fiduciary one, and can only be enforced in another state by permission of its laws. No state is required under any rule to surrender the effects or debts due to an intestate domiciled elsewhere to the prejudice and injury of its own citizens. Although the title and right of the domiciliary administrator may be recognized ex comitate, it is subject to the rights of the creditors of the estate where the assets exist, or the debtor of the deceased resides. It would be very unjust to require creditors in this state to seek their remedy in another jurisdiction when there were assets here; and it is well settled that the creditors of each state are entitled to payment before the assets of the estate are withdrawn to another jurisdiction. (Story on Conflict of Laws, sec. 512.) So the rule has become established t”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Toner v. Conqueror Trust Co.

2. ““ ‘Notes are bona notabilia at the domicile of the intestate when left there at the time of his death, and that administration taken out in another state where the debtor resides does not draw thereto the title or the right to the notes unless they actually came to the hands of such administrator.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jasper v. Thomas

3. ““The courts, however, are not entirely uniform in their holding upon this question. Some of the authorities hold that the title to these evidences of debt is not only in the domiciliary administrator, but that they are assets in his hands instead of at the domicile of the debtor.” (p. 276.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ames v. Citizens National Bank