Fugate v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The reason that a foreign executor is not ordinarily subject to suit is that a grant of administration has no legal operation outside the state from whose jurisdiction it is derived. [citation omitted] The exception recognized by the Virginia decisions is based upon the right of the state to protect local creditors with respect to the property of the decedent found or brought within the state. As to such property, the power of the state can be asserted without regard to the powers granted the executor by the foreign state.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Crosson v. Conlee

2. ““Administration only extends to the. assets of the intestate within the state where it was granted. If it were otherwise, the assets might be drawn out of the state, to the great inconvenience of domestic creditors, and be distributed, perhaps, on very different terms, according to the laws of another jurisdiction.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Pearson v. Norfolk & W. Ry. Co.