Cashion v. Torbert’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
May 2012
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 439 So. 2d 137 - Peebles v. Miley · Clark v. Knox · 846 So. 2d 334 - Byrd v. Lámar · Alexander v. Bates · 575 So. 2d 83 - Lanier v. Moore-Handley, Inc.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he novelty and difficulty of the administrative process, the skill requisite to perform the service, the likelihood that the acceptance of the particular employment will preclude other employment, the fee customarily charged in the locality for similar services, the amount involved and the results obtained, the requirements imposed by the circumstances and condition of the estate, the nature and length of the professional relationship with the decedent, the experience, reputation, diligence, and ability of the person performing the services, the liability, financial or otherwise, of the personal representative, or the risk and responsibility involved....””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““[T]he fact that an executor-attorney ‘employs himself does not raise a conflict of interest and ... where an executor appointed by a will is also an attorney, there is no reason why that individual ‘shall not be allowed a reasonable compensation for his services’ rendered the estate in his capacity as attorney, so long as the services had been necessarily and bona fide rendered for the benefit of the estate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The debts against the estates of decedents are to be paid in the following order: “(1) The funeral expenses. “(2) The fees and charges of administration. “(3) Expenses of the last sickness. “(4) Taxes assessed on the estate of the decedent previous to his death. “(5) Debts due to employees, as such, for services rendered the year of the death of the decedent. “(6) The other debts of the decedent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.