Cenker v. Cenker’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Sullivan v. United States · Markham v. Allen · Infelice v. United States · Waterman v. Canal-Louisiana Bank & Trust Co. · Morgan Walton Properties, Inc. v. International City Bank & Trust Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The [probate] exception applies both to purely probate matters, and to matters ancillary to probate in the practical sense that allowing it [the case] to be maintained in federal court would impair the policies served by the probate exception to diversity jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lepard v. NBD Bank“The probate exception is a practical doctrine designed to promote legal certainty and judicial economy by providing a single forum of litigation, and to tap the expertise of probate judges by conferring exclusive jurisdiction on the probate court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lepard v. NBD Bank
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.