Becker v. Buder’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 1 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Administration of estates of nonresident decedents — how and when made. “No letters of administration shall be granted upon the estate of any decedent non-resident as to any shares of stock, bonds, credits or choses in action except upon the application of a creditor within this State or upon the showing to the Court by an ancillary administrator within this State that the lands and other personal property of such decedent within this State will not be sufficient to discharge the debts of such estate. Such application or showing shall be made in the probate court of that county in Missouri in which letters of administration might otherwise be granted, within a period of six months after the granting or refusal of letters upon the estate of such decedent at his domicile, or in the event no order refusing letters is made nor administration had upon the estate of such decedent at his domicile, then within six months after the date of death of such decedent. Unless before the expiration of such period of time an ancillary administrator within this State, pursuant to application or showing as herein provided, has made a demand for transfer, payment or delivery upon the issuer, obligor or debtor of or upon such shares of stock, bonds, credits, or choses in action, such shares of stock, bonds, credits or choses in action may be transferred, paid or delivered to or in the name of the domiciliary executor or administrator or upon his order, or to any heir, legatee, distributee, or ot”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Blum v. Salyer

2. ““If we hold the domiciliary executor or administrator cannot sue, as he is here doing, we accuse the Legislature of having created a situation where there can be no local administrator with a right to the property in issue and where the foreign administrator is powerless, if delivery of the personalty due him under the statute is not voluntarily made.” (Emphasis added.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Blum v. Salyer