claims against the estate
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 375 U.S. 118 - United States v. Stapf · 1963Most cited · 348 citing opinions
The claims referred to by the statute are those 'claims against' the property of the deceased which are allowed by and enforceable under the laws of the administering State and not those claims created by the deceased's gratuitous assumption of debts attaching to the property of another.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “claims against the estate” — 345 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.