Jacobsmeyer v. Cordes’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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

1. “Decedent may be read as protectee under [§ 475.020]. As daughter of the protectee, appellant is not an interested person under the statute. She is neither a devisee, spouse, creditor, nor does she have a claim against the estate of the protectee. She also may not claim her right as an heir of the protectee as “no one is an heir to the living.” State ex rel. Goodloe v. Wurdeman, 286 Mo. 153 , 227 S.W. 64, 66 (1910). Further, appellant can not claim a property interest in the estate. The supreme court in Good-loe stated that whatever interest a child may have of the ward “is a purely sentimental and filial interest in the person of [the ward]. The language of the statutes precludes the idea that it was meant to include one having a sentimental interest only, in an estate.” Goodloe, 227 S.W. at 67 . [[Image here]] Appellant is not an interested person nor is she aggrieved by the decision of the trial court in a manner now protected by statute. A party must have a direct pecuniary interest in the result of litigation to have the right of appeal as aggrieved by the judgment. § 512.020, RSMo 1978. Appellant is nothing more than an apparent future heir and has no interest other than a mere expectancy in the protectee’s estate.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Matter of Hancock

2. “(15) “Interested persons” mean heirs, devisees, spouses, creditors or any others having a property right or claim against the estate of a decedent being administered and includes children of a protec-tee who may have a property right or claim against or an interest in the estate of a protectee. This meaning may vary at different stages and different parts of a proceeding and must be determined according to the particular purpose and matter involved;”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cordes v. Caldwell