Moore v. Graybeal’s Empirical Analysis
843 F.2d 706 · 1988
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably 156 Ohio App. 3d 227 - Roll v. Edwards (2004), Golden v. Golden (2004)
15 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 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 Markham v. Allen · Sutton v. English · Farrell v. O'Brien · Galligan v. Westfield Centre Service, Inc. · 97 Ill. 2d 174 - Robinson v. First State Bank of Monticello
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Regardless of how Moore characterizes her claim, she is seeking in substance to invalidate the will.... We are not impressed with the concept that granting her relief would not interfere with the probate proceedings if done by an award of damages rather than by an order to the executor directing distribution of the estate. Either way the substance is the same.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A party with an exclusive statutory remedy cannot be permitted to allow her remedy to be lost and then proceed with a tort action which would be otherwise unavailable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Umsted v. Umsted“[W]e are satisfied that jurisdiction cannot be sustained on the theory that this is an action by a legatee which does not interfere with the probate proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Golden v. Golden
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.